The Importance Of Self Confidence

What is Self Confidence?

To achieve a goal, you need skills, discipline, determination, capability and self-confidence. Self-confidence comes from having the right skills and clarity of goals; the clearer the purpose, the better the focus and self-confidence. Nothing great was ever achieved by people who lacked confidence. If not backed by self-confidence, a capable body and mind will not function to their most significant potential. Self-confidence, hence, is the pivot on which all the creative and analytical abilities of the mind rest. 

Low self-confidence can impair the functioning of both the body and mind. Self-confidence measures 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 and socialising as to whether they are confident or not. The very first handshake with a person will tell their level of self-confidence. A self-confident person truly stands apart as drooping shoulders, falling jaws, tentative 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 themselves. Everything automatically falls in place for a confident person, and the world opens up for the person who walks with sure-footed steps. 

Self Confidence – the basis of all achievement!

Great things are seldom achieved without the necessary confidence. All the skills and efforts possible are useless if confidence is lacking. Low confidence halts your steps, and you cannot take the initiative. Low self-confidence paralyses both the body and mind when making a decision. It leaves you undecided, and the undecided are swept away. There is no place for indecisiveness in this world where success is worshipped. As the old saying goes,

"You must stand for something, or you will fall for anything"

It's your confidence that holds you together or, lack of, that breaks you apart. Confidence isn't genetic, nor is it hereditary. Nobody is born confident. It is acquired, it is learned, it is improved, it is practised, and you can also generate it. You first need to realise the importance of confidence before you make efforts to improve it. It's very much in your hands to develop self-confident behaviour. 

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, the level of confidence makes people come out and lead from the front without caring for failure. It's the belief in oneself that differentiates achievement from defeat.

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 ending up building great businesses. Indeed what turned these seemingly ordinary people 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 at the interview. The confident ones are the ones who get attention. Attention brings acceptance, and acceptance brings what you seek, and this, in turn, makes you efficient. Efficiency makes you an achiever, and achievement makes you even more confident. 

Make sure that you are never out of this magical spiral. Because ultimately, the one who wins is the one who thinks they can! Believe in yourself, get going; tell yourself that you have it in you!

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