Science Fair Projects: Confidence - Raise Your Level of Awareness

If you do not start from the begining, then this process will not work for you. Each week we will have a link to the past exercise(s). Start from the beginning and work your way through the process at your own pace. There has only been one lesson before this one: Building Confidence, The Plans.

Last week I forgot to tell you to get a notebook just for this process where you record your actions.

Did you ever hear of the term word homeostasis? ho·me·o·sta·sis
It is a scientific terms that means when things are in balance. Humans and nature strive for balance.

Just think about it. Humans need oxygen to breathe. In the human breathe we exhale carbon monoxide and nitric acid as reported by the Dept Physiology and Pharmacology of Sweden study. Plant take in carbon monxide and convert it to oxygen, which they leave off (breathe) into the atmosphere. So we are each other's life-line.

There is something called a drive reduction. When homeostatis experience an unbalance, an automatic drive occurs that makes us want to take action and restore balance and eliminate the tension that is experienced by imbalance. In other words, living within our "comfort zone". Perhaps that is reason today for the focus of environmental science around the globe.

Humans have an internal drive for success. Each person has their own thermostat and will not allow themselves to go below a particular level. It's like a automatic thermostat on the heating unit of your house. The heating mechanism turns on when it gets to cold and turns off when it reaches a certain temperature. Families set a level of success that is required to maintain or one that they do not want their children to surpass. This all takes place unconsciously and is passed on from generation to generation. Teacher do the same in their classrooms.

Levels or limits of success can be changed by groups or individuals by taking different actions. You can raise your thermastat. It may feed uncomfortable, weird, and scary at first, but the rewards are well worth your effot.

Action for this week: Do a self-examination and determine your level of confidence in different areas of your life. If you are a parent or teacher reading this ezine, please take the time to do this first, with yourself, and then with your child/students.

Action For This Week
Have you ever set a goal and then said to yourself, "I could never do that." Or this uncomfortable feeling occurred in your chest or the pit of your stomach? Then you never follow through with the project so that you don't fail. Or you start the project and don't complete it... maybe like doing a homework assignment!  :-)  It is good recognize the lowest level of failure that your will allow.

Now think of a goal you had success in achieving. Write down the answers to the following questions:

~Where is that feeling in your body?
~What do you see when you picture that goal?
~What do you say to yourself?

Now think of a goal that you want to achieve but feel really uncomfortable about. You either think you will fail at it or that there is too much work to do to achieve it. Write it down in your notebook....

A goal that I want to achieve but don't think I can
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This is an important action because it will be the foundation from which you will be building your confidence.

See you next time.....The confidence emails will be coming about twice a month or more.

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