If you believe that you have the power to carry out a task, you will vastly enhance your likelihood of success. But that belief requires a sense of entitlement. You need to see yourself as being the right person, in the right place, for the right reason. Why should you doubt any of that? Some factors will always knock our confidence from time to time. Even the greatest, the boldest and the bravest wrestle with these. Mindfulness, these days, is all the rage. Where once only monks and yogis practised mediation, we can all see the advantage of taking some time out, retiring to a peaceful place and floating off into a calm, quiet, mood. But some of us are not quite sure how to do this and even the most ardent practitioners of meditative techniques find themselves too easily distracted. Just because something is difficult, we can't decide that it isn't worthwhile.