Keep Faith in Yourself

So today was cool because I got to coach a group of collegiate athletes. While I wasn’t totally in charge of the group, I was in charge of every section I was in, and the athletes were asking me questions and having me show them what to do. The reason this surprised me so much was because so few other interns were doing any coaching this early, and we really aren’t very indoctrinated in the MBSC system. While some of this paragraph has been a bit of humble-bragging, I stopped and thought about the common traits between those who coached and those who didn’t. The one trait that I thought was the biggest predictor of who coached and who didn’t was confidence in one’s actions.  I have coached before and knew I could coach these kids, so I did. I had a presence without being over-bearing, and coached the cues that have already been taught to me by the staff at MBSC. Especially in service oriented industries, having confidence in your abilities, even if they are weak, shows your client that you are giving them the best you have to offer, which goes an awfully long way towards creating success. Even if you don’t know something, projecting confidence in trying to find an answer let’s someone know that you are working hard for them all the time. I wish I had more time to expand on this topic and maybe it will be in something later, but the bedroom beckons. I will leave it at this though, confidence is a powerful outward indicator of how comfortable someone is with their abilities.