Do you want to be confident? Then get out from behind a computer screen and start eyeballing real people. A smile – genuine – will melt even the most anal-retentive bureaucrat. It will make the recipient feel good and you will feel great too.
Shyness is a disease based on fear of the unknown. We don’t want to get burned or ridiculed, but the only way to avoid these negatives is to face them down. If you are fifty or sixty and rigidly shy, the task of coming out of your shell may be daunting. Start by saying Hi to ten people a day. Then move up to a more challenging, “Good morning,” “Good afternoon,” and Good evening.”
Don’t stop there. Extend your greetings by a word, by a sentence, by a paragraph on a continual basis. Without overcoming shyness, your life will remain a fraction of its potential for happiness and fulfillment.
This life of ours is not a dress rehearsal. We are put here with purpose and it is our responsibility to find out what that purpose is and act on it.
Let’s now move on to part 4 of the Self-Confidence Litmus Test (below). Take inventory of where you are on the self-confidence continuum and take action to eliminate the deficits in your character holding you back from being a shining star in an endless universe.
Undoubtedly, nobody on this planet embraces criticism of him- or herself.
We want to be loved and accepted unconditionally. That’s a tall order in a world which likes to destroy the successful and the well-adjusted, as a twisted sport of sorts.
Rather than climbing our emotional ladder toward self-confidence, far too many of us spend far too much bad energy on putting down others and crowing about why we are superior.
In part 3 of The Self-Confidence Litmus Test ,we delve into some issues which plague those with low self-esteem and fractured relationships: namely, the inability to be flexible and tolerant of contrary viewpoints and lifestyles and the inability to listen intently.
Listen and watch like your midlife and senior years depend upon it, because they do…
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Many people with shrinking income base constantly say or infer: “Times are rough. I can’t afford to buy ______” (you fill in the blank). So we do without and complain about how unfair life is or how some people are born for success(but that’s not me).
I adore – am tickled – when I see resourceful individuals and groups – squeezing every drop of juice out of the lemon. In this case, the lemon is all the tools and utensils in our cluttered world of excess that go unused or are used rarely which could be invaluable for those on the dole, strapped for money, or on a pension pinch.
Neighborgoods.Net is valiantly filling that void. They are trailblazers in providing a virtual tool shed which enables people to rent out (at modest prices) or borrow (for a wink) tools, utensils, bicycles or even a clunker car.
This concept is viral and extremely important. My feeling is that people who can fix up there house or small business for minimal cost will have more dignity and more drive to improve their lives.
Squeezing all the juice out of everything in our possession is a sustainable winner. Let’s model this ideal on an everyday basis.
Welcome to Part 2 of the Self-Confidence Litmus Test. These tests are meant to fuel your willingness to see your character blind spots and deal effectively with them.
In our middle years and beyond it is essential to move past the past and see – once again – a new horizon of hope in our lives. We can become effective in a cosmic second, once we resolve to develop self-confidence and self-reliance against all odds.
We are not statistics. We are the most adaptable beings on this planet and we can reinvent ourselves no matter how bleak the past or present moment may seem.
Watch and listen intently to part two of the Self-Confidence Litmus Test and move one step closer to lasting happiness and prosperity.
Self-confidence is the most important element of success. It doesn’t grow just by wishing it to do so. It is derived by asking good questions that can inspire us to change.
Self-confidence can be developed, even when we are decades’ past our “spring chicken” years. The following series of videos are intended to give each Late Bloomer a launching platform for high self-confidence and self-esteem.
I will never claim to be an expert in this field, but I do feel quite confident that I am asking better questions in recent years and getting better results.
Life is always a gift unwrapping and unfolding. When we believe in ourselves - and that attitude CAN be acquired – our prospects for work and play turn sunny and probable.
