Posts tagged Virtues
Building Confidence And Self Esteem
Oct 15th
To lead successful and happy life, self-confidence is one of the key elements. It will improve your social interaction and chances in climbing the stepladder of success and also will be a useful dosage of self-confidence and improves your business interactions.
People who have confidence are attractive and gorgeous because it peaks other people’s interest in them. If you think that you are not worthy of being noted or befriended, then others would assume there is a good reason for this and they avoid you or not give you a second thought. It is very essential for your personality that others should know you better than yourself; this only can happen by yourself.
It is the middle ground between low self-confidence and overconfidence. A person who has self confidence will do what he believes in even with opposition, wills take risks and cross the extra miles, admitting mistakes and learning from them, and accept compliments graciously-realizing that what he did was excellent, and not downplaying his role in the matter. But on the other hand, a person with low self-confidence will pattern his thoughts and actions to those around him, stays safe in his comfort zone or commend upon his virtues without waiting to be recognized in an attempt to remind himself of his importance. Further, an overconfident person will over-reach and exceed his limits, often falling short of his goal, and enthusiastically linger on his role in a successful situation.
To balance these three situations can be difficult, but the rewards are very satisfactory.
Comparatively, self confidence is often a more important asset than skill, knowledge, or even experience. It seems like a piece of a puzzle needed to make the entire puzzle complete. Let us take a closer look. We imagine that you have the skill, knowledge, and experience to qualify for a certain job. But when you go for the job interview, what will happen if you are not able to give answers that you know very well. It is the scarcity of confidence.
Do You Have to Be a Doormat to Be Humble?
Sep 27th
Do you have a difficult time being humble consistently? Do you think that you have to put yourself down or undermine yourself to be humble? Do you have to hate yourself to be humble?
If you do, believe me, you’re not alone. We all want to assert ourselves and make our values known. In this article, I will show that you can practise humility and be strong at the same time. In fact, you can’t be humble without being strong.
Humility is a difficult concept to decipher correctly. Many people believe that to be humble is to be a downcast type of person who doesn’t have a strong self-image. But is this the case? In this article, I will examine what humility is as well as what it isn’t. In the process, I hope that you will have a much more accurate idea of what constitutes humility.
Humility is a virtue. Like all virtues, it is hard to develop in any consistent manner. Humility develops in leaps and bounds. We seem to have humility when we least expect it. And other times we lack humility for no apparent reason.
Humility means that you have confidence in your abilities and your talents. It doesn’t mean that you believe you are better than everyone else. It just simply means that you will forge ahead and do the best that you can.
When you have humility, you don’t need to gossip, slander or put others down. You feel secure enough in yourself to not need that because you are not threatened by others. Instead, you cohabit with them with a grace that passes all lines of misunderstanding.
To be humble doesn’t mean that you have to be self-depreciatory, weak willed, allow others to abuse you, be open to criticism from others, self-critical, prone to endless shame, guilt ridden, snarly and aggressive, belligerent, angry, abusive towards others, hiding who you truly are, or insecure and shy. Instead, to be humble is to be a balanced and secure individual.
To be humble is to have vision, integrity, dedication, openness, creativity, fairness, assertiveness, and poise in everything that you say and do. To be humble is to have confidence in yourself and others. To be humble is to do all things with grace and care.
So, act with humility without worrying that are a doormat by acting this way. Nothing is further from the truth. A doormat is not humble. A doormat has a low self-image. And there’s a huge difference between these two things.
