4 Secrets Of Self-Made Millionaires

From best-selling authors, psychologists, and leaders who understand what it takes to develop resilience.

Melody Wilding, LMSW
The Startup

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Photo by Matt Lamers

We tend to think confidence is an innate personality trait that you have or you don’t. We make the mistake of assuming we have to feel confident before taking action, so we put off launching a business or pursuing big goals. But the truth is, confidence is cultivated. It’s a skill that’s reinforced with the right daily habits.

Mindfulness expert and author Leo Babuta puts it this way:

Action, actually, is the key to developing self-confidence. It’s one thing to learn to think positive, but when you start acting on it, you change yourself, one action at a time. You are what you do, and so if you change what you do, you change what you are.

Making mistakes and recovering from them actually helps you feel better about yourself, proving grit is built, not inborn.

Best-selling author and entrepreneur, Denise Duffield-Thomas, knows a thing or two about developing resilience. Today she runs a million-dollar business while also being a mom of two.

But it wasn’t always this way. She faced many false starts that challenged her confidence along the way, which she shares in her new book Lucky

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Melody Wilding, LMSW
The Startup

Author of TRUST YOURSELF. Executive coach to Sensitive Strivers. Human behavior professor. Featured in NYT, NBC, CNN. https://melodywilding.com/book