Creating Confidence

Confidence is one of those things that if it could be bottled and sold in it's purest form the world would be a much different place. In the wrong hands it can take a dark path towards narcissistic tendencies, but at the other end of the scale, without it, talented people may never reach out to their full potential.

Different personalities with different levels of confidence can sometimes rest on a very fine line, and perhaps even fluctuate between two extremes. Confidence can be there one day and gone, seemingly without trace, the next. When this happens, where does it go? And how do you get it to come back?

I think some of the answers lie in the fact that the word 'confidence' is a neat, or perhaps not so neat, package of different emotions and experiences. If any of these disassociated factors dip into the negative then confidence is more than likely to be taken down with it.

So how can confidence levels be managed enabling us to achieve our true destiny? Ultimately, for me, the answer is to keep going, to not give up the things that I enjoy doing when I am feeling confident even during the times when I don't feel it. The world and the people in it won't have changed over night, only our personal outlook. Stand up to the unruly thoughts that come with lack of confidence and carry on regardless, like taking a sledge hammer to a brick wall. When you break through and come out on the other side, you usually find that that is the very place where confidence had disappeared to all along!

'Confidence' 2014