You ever wonder what confidence is?
Well, I was wondering that exact same thing today, so I went and looked up the definition of confidence in the dictionary. This is what I found:
- Full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing
- Belief in oneself and one’s powers or abilities
- Trust or faith in a person or thing
- A feeling of assurance, especially self-assurance
- The state or quality of being certain
In other words, confidence is a feeling you get when you learn to trust and believe in yourself.
But how do you learn how to trust and believe in yourself?
Is that something you can buy, get or take from other people?
NO!
Confidence is something you have to build on your own, and the only way to build confidence in yourself is to TAKE ACTION!
If you want to gain confidence in your ability to play a sport, you have to actually practice that sport.
If you want to gain confidence in your ability to sing, you have to actually practice singing.
If you want to gain confidence in your ability to make money, you have to actually do the work it takes to make money.
Of course taking action and DOING these things that you want to do when you don’t have any confidence in your ability to do them well is tough.
The weird and wacky truth, however, is that if you’re willing to first be really bad at something and keep practicing even when you don’t believe in yourself, you’ll soon gain UNSHAKABLE self-confidence.
By just taking action toward your dreams, you’ll learn how to trust and believe in yourself.
Personally, I want to build confidence in my ability to write novels, so I’m going to go practice my writing.
What about you? What action can you take RIGHT NOW to help you build your self-confidence?
Great. Now go DO it!
To your dreams,
Bonnie Jean
