I believe in confidence, not only is it important to have confidence, but to be confident in oneself. Nothing allows you to achieve more and push yourself to your limits like confidence does. I almost see self-confidence as a drug, one that will leave a positive effect on your life. I can tell you from personal experience that being confident in yourself can take you places you never thought that you would be.
Being a confident in yourself doesn’t always mean that you are an arrogant person. I feel like there is a fine line between being arrogant and being humble/confident.
I’ve played sports like basketball and football the majority of my life and the first thing any high-level athlete will tell you that you need in order to succeed at a high level is confidence. Growing up I always believed in myself even when no one else did. Not only does confidence provide for a great sports experience, but I believe it also translates over to the real world.
Personally, I’ve never been the studying type when it comes to school. Somehow, all throughout high school I managed to get by with good test grades purely based off of confidence and belief in my smarts. I always encourage my peers who are nervous about testing, or tell themselves they are bad test-takers to just be confident in their studies and not to overthink it.
My senior year of high school I had a classmate turn to me and ask me what I do to stay so calm and collected while presenting in front of the class. While I couldn’t blame this on an overload of rehearsal and study, I kept it honest and told him that I honestly just go with the flow and believe in my abilities while trying not to overthink. After presenting that day, the same classmate came back up to me and thanked me for what I thought at the time was meaningless advice.
Everyone is different and that’s to be understood, but if you’re reading or listening to this, just be confident in yourself. Everything you do begins with you and if you don’t believe in yourself then you already failed. I promise it will take you a long way!
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