Journal Entry
BUILDING SELF-EFFICACY
Self-efficacy — your belief in your ability to carry out the actions needed to reach a particular goal — powerfully affects how you approach a task and deal with obstacles. You can increase your self-efficacy for a particular activity by experiencing success, observing others who are successful, seeking support and encouragement from others, and turning stress into a motivator.
In this journal entry, identify an activity that you initially didn’t believe you could do but went on to complete successfully. Describe how achieving small successes, observing successful people, seeking support and encouragement, and using stress as motivation increased your sense of self-efficacy for that activity.