Believe in Yourself and Your Strengths
It's easier than you think.
Believe in yourself and the rest will fall into place. Believe in your abilities, work hard, and nothing will be impossible for you.” – Brad Henry
It's a well-known fact that we all must believe in ourselves if we want to succeed in life. People easily lose faith when faced with obstacles, setbacks, and fears. When you lack self-confidence, others see it and don't take you seriously.
Not many people are living the life they always wanted to live; they give up on their goals as soon as they face the first setback. One of the main reasons for this is that they don't believe in themselves. You must believe because your inner faith creates outer results.
The modern world we live in is extremely competitive and complex, and people begin to doubt themselves and their abilities when they fail. But a few failures are not the end!
You can endlessly argue what was first. The chicken or the egg? You can equally argue about what is more important in a person’s life: self-confidence, self-esteem, taking responsibility for one’s life, the ability to act decisively and persistantly to achieve results, or a dozen other different skills. But the fact remains that without faith in oneself, it is really difficult both to achieve success in life, and to be able to enjoy it.
What is self-confidence?
Self-confidence is a person's conviction that the chosen path of life is correct; that they can achieve their main goals; they are worthy of success and will achieve it. When a person has high self-confidence, they are convinced of the correctness of every current decision, and that everything they are doing to achieve their goal is correct.
Each mistake that’s made lowers self-confidence, and each success increases it. That’s why faith in oneself is such a critical component to fuel the desire to complete one’s objective. Faith does not depend so much on current results, but on belief in yourself and in what you can become and achieve. It can be dangerous for a person who solely focuses on successful results without having faith in themselves to accomplish their ultimate goal because they are likely to give up just before success.
How to start believing in yourself and your abilities?
1. Take responsibility and accept yourself: When can we actually believe in ourselves? Only when there is a conviction that our life and the results that we get depend on us and on our actions. That is why taking 100% responsibility for your life is a necessary element of believing in yourself. If there is no confidence that we can control the efforts we exert in life, then how can we believe in ourselves? Another consequence of taking responsibility is self-acceptance. Agreeing to accept ourselves for who we are gives us the opportunity to believe in ourselves and our powers. We can never truly believe in ourselves if we condemn ourselves for who we are.
2. We teach our body to radiate faith in ourselves: When a person has high faith in themselves and their strength, this gets displayed in their physical body. These signs are the same as those of self-confident people with high self-esteem. They are poised with a straight and proud posture, make strong eye-to-eye contact, and exude confidence in their speech. All this creates an aura of self-confidence.
Another external sign of self-confidence is that such a person consistently adheres to certain values and beliefs, does not change them, and consistently defends them. This indicates a holistically formed personality. We say that people like this have a strong inner core and this is only possible if there is faith in oneself.
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