Self defence classes – to give you that extra boost of confidence

I don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t feel as safe as I used to anymore walking around by myself in the day-time. As for night, you’d never catch me walking alone, and any young girl or woman that does then in my book, you’re extremely brave.

Ok, so I’m not the most overly confident person, if anything I lack a bit of confidence, which really doesn’t help my situation of walking alone anywhere. This is why I’m considering joining a self defence class to give me that extra boost I seem to be lacking when I’m out on my own.

Self defence classes will be able to teach me the necessities that I would need if I was to ever find myself in any sort of trouble. The aim of most self defence classes is to teach you the basic self defence mechanisms if you were ever to come across common attacks or assaults. So things such as getting out of bear hugs or a tight grip, or if someone was to grab you by the throat, you’d be able to get yourself out of these somewhat scary situations with little effort. Now that’s bound to make you feel more at ease on the streets!

Not only will you be able to learn all of these self defence techniques, just learning them itself is actually a massive confidence booster for anyone who has a low-confidence level. The fact that after your classes, you’d feel like you could tackle anything is a major confidence boost for anyone, and if you’re confidence is high, then this will be immediately reflected by the way in which you walk and act out and about by yourself, which in theory would make you less of a target in the first place if anything was to happen.

Also, by building your confidence, it also builds your self-esteem and self belief, which again is a win-win situation. So every time you have a self defence class, you’ll hopefully feel at your best and walk with your head held high.

So, I’m definitely going to consider taking a self defence class!

 

Favourite Quotes – Part 1

I like to read quotes as part of my morning routine … it puts me in a super positive frame of mind for the day, wakes me up, and seems to really help the first hour of chores/work that I get done.

Here are some of my selected favourite quotes that I like to read in my morning routine. Normally I rotate them around so that I have maybe 5-8 quotes which I really picture myself acting out in the world!

Choose a few yourself and give it a go for a few weeks!

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever ‘the old’ means for you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

Patricia Neal

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.
Jack Nicklaus, ‘My Story’

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defence

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.
Eleanor Roosevelt

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
Sydney Smith

If you must love your neighbour as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbour.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich von Schiller

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Brian Adams

Beware undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.

Arnold Bennett

I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.

Dr. Ana M Guzman

I change my present every day to create the future that I want

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
Boris Pasternak

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Madeline Stark

I’ve learned not to listen to people who say I can’t do things. If you have heart and determination, anything is possible.

Brian Shaw (NFL)

Life isn’t about what will make you rich; it’s what will enrich you.

Dr La Mar Hasbroiok (former NFL)

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944

I develop my courage every day and am thankful for fear, so that I can show courage

To play it safe is not to play.
Robert Altman

“Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.”
Basil King

“I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ‘Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.’ I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have – When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.”
Harry S Truman

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”

William James

“Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.”
Eddie Rickenbacker

“We go where our vision is.”
Joseph Murphy

“To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.”
Michael Hanson