The Importance of Self-Confidence

Success is a trajectory, not a destination. Confidence is a powerful factor.

What is Self-confidence?

To be able to achieve a goal you need skills, discipline, determination, capability, and self-confidence. Self-confidence comes from having the right kind of skills, habits, and clarity of goals to be achieved. The clearer the goal, the better the focus of mind and self-confidence. Nothing great was ever achieved by people who lacked confidence. A capable body and mind will not function to their greatest potential if not backed by self-confidence. Self-confidence, hence, is the pivot on which all the creative and analytical abilities of the mind rest on. Low self-confidence can impair the functioning of both the body and mind, resulting in failure. Self-confidence is the measure of one’s collective ability to march right ahead to achieve a goal.

The Visibility Factor

Self-confidence has a way of being visible. You can tell by observing the very manner of a person walking, communicating, working, socializing, as to whether they are confident or not. The very first handshake with a person will tell the level of self-confidence. A self-confident person truly stands apart. Drooping shoulders, falling jaws, undecided steps are not the characteristics of a confident person. Confidence is infectious; the presence of a self-confident person tends to charge up the air around them. Everything automatically falls in place for a confident person, and the world stands apart for the person who walks with sure, confident steps. A confident person commands respect as well.

Self-Confidence – the Basis of All Achievement

Great things are seldom achieved without necessary confidence. All the skills and efforts possible are useless if confidence is lacking. Low confidence halts your steps and you cannot take initiative. Low self-confidence paralyzes both the body and mind at the time of making decision. It leaves you undecided and the undecided are easily swept off course. Achievement seldom comes to someone who is undecided. As the old saying goes, you must stand for something or you will fall for anything – and it’s your confidence that holds you together or breaks you apart.

Confidence isn’t genetic nor it is hereditary. Nobody is born confident. Confidence is acquired. Confidence is learned. Confidence is improved. Confidence is practiced. And confidence can be generated. You need to first realize the importance of confidence before you can make any efforts to get better with it. It’s very much in your hands to develop a self-confident behavior.

Confidence brings out the fighter in you

It is said that one has to take risks to achieve something. The element of profit is risk. There’s no gain without pain, as we’ve all heard. So what is it that enables one person to go ahead and take risks while another is held back? Yes, it’s the level of confidence that makes people come out and lead from the front without caring for failure. It’s this belief in oneself that differentiates achievement from failure.

Confidence in themselves was behind scores of people who broke the shackles of a well- paying, “secure” job to pursue their dream of creating something, being something and ended up building great businesses. Surely what turned these seemingly ordinary men and women who were stuck in the nine-to-five ordeal into successful entrepreneurs was nothing but a belief in their dreams and immense self-confidence! Not just at work, but every area of our lives.

Be Confident

In today’s world of competition, confidence isn’t just an asset. It forms the very basis of your survival. Getting a good job means you need to be confident in the interview. Getting a raise, again, needs you to be confident at work. The confident ones are the ones who get positive attention. Attention brings acceptance and acceptance brings love, peace and energy that make you efficient. Efficiency makes you an achiever and achievement makes you even more confident.

And when you are confident, can happiness and fulfillment be far behind? Make sure that you are never out of this magical spiral. Believe in yourself, get going; tell yourself that you have it in you. Because ultimately, those who are confident and believe in themselves pursue a trajectory instead of a destination.

First Steps

Your first step to increasing your self-confidence is to start today. Each day you delay is another day the past wins. However you choose to begin building your self-confidence, do so today! Be thorough and consistent with the process and be aware it may take a while. You should not become impatient or despondent if you find your self-confidence slipping. Choose to have grace with yourself. Remember, you are an important and worthy person and should treat yourself as such.

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