Ep4 - Building Confidence by Gamifying Tasks

If there is one thing that propels your goals faster than ever before, it is Confidence. Confidence is the single most important factor in speeding up your goals. If a confidence cappuccino is what you are looking for, then listen on. Confidence gets us through challenging situations and makes our life more enjoyable. However, its not always easy to be confident in yourself because there are many things that can make you feel like you are not good enough or someone else will do it better than you. There are two ways you can have it, by approaching a goal with extreme certainty, like you own it already and by building it as you progress. Both are essential but the former approach makes a tremendous difference in the outcomes. When you discover limited self-esteem in yourself, it makes building confidence more difficult to build. Converting this limitation to extreme certainty needs a bit of excitement and enthusiasm about your goal. Let’s quickly ask ourselves what excites us, making us enthusiastic to take up something and really contain the enthusiasm throughout the process? Coming to the later part of confidence building, which is through progress, If only you could take simple steps to build momentum and be consistent, confidence builds fast and in turn impacts your progress positively by accelerating your goals. Let’s see how we can gamify this process. How about gamifying your new skill set? The next time you write yourself a checklist of tasks, reward yourself ‘Confidence Points’ for every set of key tasks that you perform. When you get to your first milestone, count how many Confidence points you earn and look for ways to increase the rate for your next milestone. For instance, if your goal is to learn a new programming language, assign 10 confidence points for every 3 key actions you take to get to the first milestone, say coding basics. For your next milestone, try to earn more confidence points, that way you are able to quantify your confidence. Check how your skills are when you achieve 500 Confidence Points. Let's say expert level programming skills require you to earn 1000 Confidence points, work towards it to increase the pace to hit that target within the timeline you set for yourself. This also shows you how much progress you are making every day. You’ll notice a significant difference in your pace and progress within a few days of gamifying your skills. Why wait? Pick up your gamified diary and start building incredible confidence in the new skill that you wish to acquire.