Confidence (I)

ONE indispensible ingredient to making your life count is confidence. There is absolutely no way you can maximize your potential without confidence. You need to be self-confident to make headway in life. Life is more likely to respond to a confident person than a person who is not confident.

“Self-confidence is a trait that reflects in every area of our lives be it educational life, professional, and personal life. People talk about the importance of self-confidence all the time but do not realize the extent of its importance. We only realize the importance of self-confidence when there is a lack of self-confidence in a person and it affects negatively in different areas of life.

Confidence basically means to trust. When you say that you have full confidence in someone, it means that you trust them. Similarly, self-confidence means to trust oneself, trust one’s abilities. It is an ability to make yourself comfortable in different situations while remaining true to yourself. Believing in oneself while accepting the flaws and becoming better. All these descriptions collectively make up the definition of self-confidence.” Impoff.com

Confidence deals with having “a knowing” of who you are and what you can do.

“Confidence is knowing what you can do and being secure in your ability to do it. Having and displaying confidence at work can show you’re capable of rising to the challenges of your job, boost motivation and focus, and keep stress at bay.” Robert Half.

Confidence is a force that has the capacity to propel a competent man to unlimited possibilities. Competence is ability to do something while confidence is the belief that you have and can use that ability.

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” Norman Vincent Peale.

Confidence is the engine that powers your competence. Confidence is the fuel that powers the engine of your life to perform at its optimum level.

Competence without confidence will rob you of the influence and impact you are to have. Confidence without competence will just be an empty barrel rolling down the road and being a nuisance.

You must be both competent and confident.

Competence coupled with confidence will take any man to the top. Confidence will propel a competent person to reach his maximum potential. Confidence is a competence launcher. It creates and places competence on the stage to perform. Confidence always says to competence “go for it, seize the moment, this is your hour, this is what you have been preparing and waiting for so get on with it.”

Confidence is built and, many times, by embracing rather than running from challenges.

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less-than-perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.” Mark Victor Hansen

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