What You Did Not Know About Confidence

Many people are under the impression that everyone except themselves has self confidence. They believe they are the unlucky ones, the doomed ones, so they sluggishly walk around day in and day out mesmerised with the thought that the happy and successful people, commonly known as "˜the others', were born with self confidence.

Well, that simply is not the case. Did you know that rich and successful people were not born with self confidence?

They had to foster, develop and build on their self confidence. And they kept practising and building on that self confidence until they gained unstoppable momentum to the point where they have become extremely confident.

They had to work daily, consistently and persistently to plant the confidence seed, nurture it and shape it in a particular area. High achievers, successful and rich people had to learn the strategies to raising self esteem, attaining courage, growing and nurturing self confidence.

It is important for you to realise that, in much the same way that they had learned self confidence, you, too, can learn it; if you really want to. And the great thing about that is you can do so in much the same way as when you learned to drive a car, cook, play tennis or make a cold sales call.

You might have lacked self confidence to start with, but, with practise and repetition your self confidence grew. Your first driving lesson might have been troublesome. Your second less troublesome, and as you progressed on to the fourth and fifth your self confidence would be growing, gaining momentum lesson after lesson.

It's the same with many aspects in life. Whenever you start something new, you will probably lack a certain amount of self confidence. In time, that confidence will grow and you will have unstoppable confidence.

Many successful people were school drop-outs, shy, introverts, some totally withdrawn, yet they managed to step out of that limiting comfort zone and tackle what has held them back from success; they went for a stroll outside their comfort zone, one stride at a time, each stride building on the other, each stride of confidence building on the other.

In due course, not only did they have all the self confidence that they want, they became confident. It became a part of their being.

Self confidence boils down to how you think and feel about yourself. It is an emotional feeling that can drive your beliefs to allow you to do all that you want. Confidence lets you achieve your true potential, to accomplish all that you desire.

Remember, you can learn to have all the confidence you need the same way that others did. You can have unlimited, unstoppable self confidence, and the simplest and quickest way to kick-start self confidence is for you to accept the fact that self confidence is an acquired process and can be learned.

This is a crucial starting point. Believe that and you're away off from the starting blocks. For you to gain self confidence you need to believe that you can learn to have all the self confidence that you want.