The Importance Of Self Confidence
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 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 said 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 he is confident or not. The
very first handshake with a person will tell her 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 very presence of a self-confident person tends to charge up
the air around him. Everything automatically falls in place for
a confident person, and the world stands apart for the man 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 swept away. There
is no place for the undecided in this world where success is
worshipped, and success 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.
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. It's sometimes the bald guy who takes the girl
because he has something more than the handsome guys around -
yes, you guessed it right, he oozes self confidence that makes
the lady weak in her knees!
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!
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 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 riches 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 the one who wins is the one who
thinks he can!