What does Confidence mean to you?

Dydysh14

4 min

Comedy & Entertainment

Description

I talk to a lot of professionals and salespeople and even entrepreneurs, people starting their own businesses, and they want to learn how can I develop more confidence or even just get myself a bit of faith so that I can be more successful in what I do. You have to realise what confidence comes from and what confidence means. Confidence is your ability to take action and feel good about yourself. Feel like whatever it is you're about to endeavour into, that you can do a good job and that you can come out of the other end of it looking good. Now, this doesn't happen by accident. When you look at the way confidence appears in our lives, it appears as a result of doing things over and over again and developing a proficiency from it. Confidence, in and of itself, is not something that you're born with or not born with. It's something that's developed over time through practice and repetition. When you first learn how to walk, when you were, let's say 12 months old or 13 months old or whatever it may be for you, you were not very confident at walking. You couldn't walk. But you were determined to try. You stood on the side of the sofa, and you pushed yourself off, and you would fall. You would try it again, and you would lose, and you would do it over and over again. Your level of confidence, in the beginning, was tiny. There probably was no confidence. But you were so determined to do it, that you kept going. Eventually, you took a step, you followed that with another step, and soon enough you were walking, and now you're an adult, and you can walk from one side to the other of a room or a hallway or whatever, and not even think about the act of walking. It's just something that comes to you naturally. If someone were to ask you your level of confidence on a scale of 0 to 10, how confident you are that you could walk across the room, you'd probably say 11. It doesn't even occur to you. You just do

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