Posts tagged Period Of Time
Who Is Influencing Your Life?
Oct 28th
It is the statement that used to make you cringe as a teenager. The one mom use to always use when she disagreed with your choice of friends. But does the statement hold true? Someone asked me today about my thoughts on why it is important to surround yourself with successful people. My first thought was, “What classifies success?” The truth is, it doesn’t matter. Everyone has a different definition of success. What is important is not losing your passion for what you love. It is important to continue to strive toward your goals and to never stop dreaming dreams. So many peoples lives have become stagnant. It isn’t that these people don’t have dreams, they have lost their burning desire to attain those dreams. A lot of what causes this is the inability to surround themselves with people who motivate and challenge them. Surrounding yourself with people who motivate and challenge you, keep you on a course to achieving your goals. It holds you to a sense of accountability.
Here’s another way I like to think of it. Picture a group of coals when they are heating your food. As a group, the coals will draw heat from one another, keeping them hot for a long period of time. But if you remove a single coal from the group, it will grow cold in just a matter of minutes. The same is true for us. If you surround yourself with people who share your same beliefs and passion for life, you are more likely to attain true happiness. You stay motivated because as a whole you draw strength from one another. I once read that “confidence is contagious”. If that is true, then so is negativity and lack of motivation. Negativity is so strong that is can literally ruin people’s lives just has fast as you blink an eye.
“The people you associate with and share ideas with have a major influence on how you choose to act upon or not act upon your dreams.” So doesn’t it seem easier to accomplish what you set forth to do when you surround yourself with people who are also striving for more than a stagnant existence?
Simple Steps to Increase Self Confidence
Oct 9th
Self-confidence is a feeling of immense confidence within one’s inner self. It is basically an emotion of feeling that no force on the face of the earth can stop one from succeeding in every realm of life.
One’s perception about himself or herself is extremely essential for others to form an opinion about the concerned person. The higher the self-confidence, the higher is the level of success one can achieve.
An important way of restoring self-confidence is to talk about problems and grievances with family and close friends so that they provide the desired support, thereby boosting the confidence.
One needs to remember the simple fact that no one on this planet is perfect and life is not going to be a bed of roses. It is often necessary to derive confidence from previous phases of success and determine what exactly has gone wrong in the present. A persistent feeling of positivity is also mandatory for keeping self-confidence at a high level.
Lack of self-confidence can be a serious threat to one’s success because one will lose the positive energy that he can make it big in life. It can lead to indecisiveness and thereby wrong decisions in life too, both pertaining to personal and professional phases of life.
People who do not maintain physical fitness often lose a lot of self-confidence when they see themselves in a miserable physical shape in the mirror.
People who do not smile do not attract acknowledgment from people around too, leading to loss of self-confidence.
People who tender to ponder on the failures of life rather than focusing on the achievements also lose the will-power and gradually the self-confidence over a period of time.
Self-confidence is often closely associated with patience. It happens often that even after loads of hard work, one does not achieve success, which may, in turn, lead to immense frustration. At this juncture, one needs to sustain the level of self-confidence that it is just a matter of time that he or she will achieve success.
