Take my Exercise Motivation & Adherence course, and you will quickly learn that, if I ask a question to which you don’t know the answer, a safe guess is “self-efficacy”. Self-efficacy is defined by psychologist Albert Bandura as “one’s belief in one’s ability to succeed in specific situations or accomplish a task.” While it is task-specific, we either believe we can or we believe we can’t—with a continuum of doubt in between.
Self-efficacy is a choice we make. Granted, it is affect by the opinions of others and past experience, but, ultimately, it is a conscious decision of whether “I can” or “I can’t”. ‘Can’t’ never did anything, so we might as well choose to believe that we can.
Be your best today; be better tomorrow.
Carpe momento!
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