SELF-EFFICACY SECURITY

Once you have a secure sense of your self—a solid sense that truly distinguishes unconditional self-esteem from conditional self-confidence in way you can do, you are ready to build up the state of self-efficacy. This refers to the self being able to be efficacious within itself to figure things out in handling the challenges of life. Self-efficacy distinguishes a person as being able to be healthily self-determining. It is characteristic of every entrepreneur who sees a challenge and considers herself as efficacious in figuring things out.

Self-efficacy rests on the foundation of years of self-confidence development. As you develop competence in one skill after another, your repeated experience of becoming confident to do various skills builds up a larger generalization, namely, “Even though I didn’t know how to do X when I started, I learned. I learned time and time again to develop new skills and I will do the same again. I will figure this out also. It is just a matter of study, talking and experience.”