By Beatrice Sithole Email: sbeatrice033@gmail.com
PEOPLE who are successful in life have got one thing in common – self confidence and a positive outlook on life.
Many people who fail, lack self confidence, they do not believe in themselves.
In most cases they think achievers got where they are because they are more intelligent or that they are well connected. They don’t believe that they too can get far in life.
They think that they are somehow incompetent or disadvantaged in one way or another.
Many people might come up with brilliant ideas or they might see opportunities where they can fly high and where they can be world changers. However, because they lack self-confidence, they shoot their ideas down before even trying to work on whatever they would have come up with.
They do not believe that they can produce anything worthwhile. This lack of confidence breeds self-doubt and self doubt leads to despondency. No wonder why many people live unhappy lives and dwell in misery.
Self-confidence can replace self doubt only by deliberate planned effort. You should know that you are capable of doing something which can change our world in a small way. All what you need to do is believe in yourself. You need to trust in your competence and know that you are just as good as the person next to you – if not better. You should never doubt what you are capable of doing.
When you begin to doubt your capabilities, pause and try to find the reason for that doubt.
If it’s due to previous failures – remember the great achievers in life who had failed many times but later became famous just by running with that last small idea that they perused.
All that they had was self-confidence and a positive outlook on life.
Begin looking within yourself now and see how you can start building your self-confidence.
Join organisations, associations and any other social networks where you can meet people who have a positive outlook in life, people who dream big, think positive and talk positive things.
If you need to increase on your knowledge, then go back to college also read magazines and various books. It is never too late to start working on yourself so that you can be what you want to be in life.
All you need to do is change your mindset, de-programme your mind from all the negative thoughts that you might have accumulated along the way. Build your self-confidence and begin thinking big, talking big and acting big.
You will be amazed at how far you can go in life.