My take on a question in Quora:

How can I build a strong self-efficacy?

You can develop a strong "self-efficacy" by:

- having strong belief and unwavering confidence in yourself and your capabilities;

- drawing on the critical success factors from your past experiences in life;

- knowing what you want in life, through setting/achieving compelling, inspiring and overarching long-range goals and objectives, covering all the major life dimensions in your life;

- mapping out your systematic game plan, with all your tactical initiatives in place, from start-point to end-point;

- acquiring proven efficient and effective tools and strategies to help you navigate the Highway of Life (including academic life if you are a student) with ease, expediency and ace;

- associating yourself with smart folks around you, so as to maximise and leverage your opportunities for learning, growth and change;

- learning from regular feed-back and feed-forward loops, with a view to constantly improve your performance;

- making progress in your forward trajectory, not perfection;

- executing by following-up and following-through all your pre-defined objectives and pre-planned tasks;

- reducing stress and increasing energy through simple relaxation sequences, with slow but deep diaphragmatic breathing routines, to help create a resourceful and superior state of mind, with a physiologically relaxed body to go along, at all times;

- celebrating your wins (milestones and accomplishments);