Growing Your Confidence

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt 

Confidence is the sense of self-reliance or boldness a person possesses.

Believe in your abilities: Knowing your abilities is not enough because if you lack the necessary believe in it, you cripple your ability to exploit it to its fullest capacity. This has nothing to do with the extent you have exploited it in the past. The fact that your last trial to exploit your gifts turned up little in return has nothing to do with further trials.

Step up to the challenge: Many people know their abilities, believe in those abilities but simply do not step up to the challenge to do something because of;

- Fear

- Pain from past experiences

- Family Upbringing

- Laziness:

Break away from popular opinions: people always have an opinion. There are some people who always think they know how you should run your life. They always think they know your abilities sometimes even more than you do. You hear it expressed in statements like, “I know what you can do”, “you are not that type of person”, “you can’t do that”, and many more. We are all guilty of such sins at one time or the other. I just recently learned not to say such things to people no matter how strongly true I think they are. Nobody really knows who you are and what you can do completely. The degree of knowledge they have of you is the exact degree you let them know.