How to Build a Confident Career Mindset

Why do we need to change our career mindsets?

Much of the career advice millennials have received is outdated.

And because it's not working, we're not succeeding in the way we thought we would.

What is a Confident Mindset?

A confident mindset is a frame of you are able to recognize your strengths and feel confident in who you are, what you're doing, and how you can do it, you will be able to tackle anything your career might toss your way.

Wondering how to become more confident in your career? Right this way...

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Make a brag list.

Keep track of times that you did something you're proud of at work.  It could be a compliment given by a coworker, a completed project you worked tirelessly on, or an interaction you felt proud of how you handled.

"If we can start training our brain around recognizing the small wins and the things that make us feel more confident, we will be able to step into a more confident version of ourselves." - Eliana Goldstein, Millennial Success Coach

Leave Your  Comfort Zone

The only way to retrain your brain's thinking pathways is by throwing a wrench in the old paths.  That means getting out of your comfort zone, trying and seeing how you succeed in what you thought you couldn't do or were afraid to try.

"Confidence is not a personality trait.  It takes practice and it’s something that you have to do over and over and over again." - Nicole Booz, Editor-in-Chief of GenTwenty

Figure Out What Motivates You

Whether it’s having a vision board around where you want to be in a year from now, or having a really clear action plan and goals of what will motivate you to do that, you have to figure out why you want to grow and what you want to grow towards.

“I’m going to care less about what people think of me and care more about what I think of me.” - Marina Crouse, Writing Coach, Managing Editor of GenTwenty

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