One of the things I usually look forward to is this moment; to talk and connect with all of you via this wonderful platform, I hope we all feel the same or at least something close to that. Our previous discussion was centred on self belief and I mentioned that, we will focus on learning and developing our self belief. So, without further ado let's get cracking.

"Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice". This was said by the late Steve Jobs in 2005, at Stanford University in his commencement speech. He said plenty but, there was something about this statement that made it standout in my thoughts. What this statement pointed out is the fact that what others say don't matter, it is your own inner voice that is important. This is the 1st step to acquiring self belief, remember we said that self belief is all about positive thinking, and your positive thoughts come from your inner voice, this means you have to learn to listen to your inner voice. The only tragedy is this, most of us have being filled up with so much negativity to such a level that, our inner voices are nothing but doubts and words that demoralizes us. So, when we want to listen to our inner voice, we hear things like "are you sure you can do it", "what if you fail", "you know you are not meant to be great" etc. At the end of the day, our inner voices is no different to the noise from the outside. Now, let me tell you this, all those voices of doubts and negativity you hear inside your head, are not yours. They have being planted in your head by what your environment continually feed you with. Humans are not born negative minded, negativity is something learnt while growing up. If you can cast your mind back, to the period when you were a kid, you will realize that nothing seemed impossible for you, this was not because you were a kid it was because your positive mind had not yet being corrupted by the negative environment.

 So, for you to develop self belief you have to empty your mind of all negativity, as a friend of mine will say, you have to return to your default setting. Everything starts from the mind, you can't have a positive attitude with the same negative mindset, you can't have a positive result with a negative mindset as well. The same way you feed your body with good nutrients to stay healthy, the same way you should feed your mind, and how to you feed your mind? Well, that will be a topic for tomorrow, so if you want to know how to feed your mind to stay positive, keep a date with me tomorrow but until then, keep working towards success and I will definitely see you at the top