考试顺利

伊浚:

每当你考试顺利的同时，我们在千里之外也感受到你的兴奋心情，分享你的喜悦。但是同様的，如果考试不及格，我们也会替你憂心。成功和失败並不代表好事和坏事，真正的好坏，在于我们如何去面対每次的成功，以及每次的失败。如果某项考试及格了，你当下傲慢，得意洋洋，得罪他人，这件成功的事情，己经是下一次失败的预兆，但是如果这次考试失败了，你也无须自責或归罪于人，而是因此奮发向上，总结经验，那在这次考试失败过程当中，已经在奠定下一次成功的基础了。祝考试顺利。

How Imagery, Positive Thinking and Suggestion Help Self-confidence

Imagery is useful in building self-confidence, but only if properly applied.

Imagery should be used to imagine achievement of a goal that is being worked towards in order to help you to believe that that goal is attainable.

It should only be used, however, where you are rationally aware that you have the raw ability to achieve a goal if you stretch yourself, but if psychological factors such as lack of emotional self-confidence are interfering with your ability to achieve. For many years psychologists have advocated use of imagery, positive thinking and suggestion without stressing that it should be based on a rational assessment of abilities. This can easily lead to overconfidence and serious failure.

How Goal Setting Helps Self-confidence

Goal setting is probably the most effective way of building self-confidence. By setting measurable goals, achieving them, setting new goals, achieving them and so on you prove your ability to yourself. You are able to prove to yourself that you are able to perform and achieve effectively. You can see and recognize and enjoy your achievement and feel real self-worth in that achievement.

Importantly, by knowing what you are able to achieve, you are not setting yourself up for surprise failure. You almost always have a reasonably accurate assessment of what your abilities really are.

Levels Of Confidence

The way in which you are self-confident is important: if you are under confident, then you will not take risks that need to be taken. If you are over-confidence, then you can end up not trying hard enough and losing.

Confidence should be based on observed reality. It should be based on the achievement of performance goals: you should be confident that you will perform up to your current abilities. Good self-confidence comes from a realistic expectation of success based on well practiced physical skills, a good knowledge of the sport, and respect for your own competence, adequate preparation and good physical condition. The success attained should be measured in terms of achievement of personal performance goals, not achievement goals such as winning.

Where you are under confident, you will commonly suffer from fear of failure, self-doubt, lack of concentration and negative thinking. Often you many find yourself blaming yourself for faults that lie elsewhere. These will damage your flow and disrupt your enjoyment of sport. Here you should use suggestion, visualization and effective goal-setting to improve your self-confidence and self-image.

Overconfidence is dangerous – it can lead you into situations which you do not have the ability to get out of. It can set you up for serious failure that can devastate the self-confidence you should have. Overconfidence is confidence that is not based on ability: it may be a result of misleading or pushy parents or coaches trying to help you without understanding your abilities, may be caused by vanity or ego, or may be caused by positive thinking or imagery which is not backed up by ability.