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What Is Stopping You...

Stepping into your confidence?

By Mel NewmanPublished 5 years ago 3 min read
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How confident do you feel about your relationships, finances, career, health, or wealth?

If you had all the confidence you desired what would life look like?

So, what stop's you?

How has your thinking affected your life?

We all wish we had more confidence, we may look at other family members, our friends, or maybe someone we admire on social media, and wish we were more like them. How come they have all that confidence? If you had more confidence what would you be, an entrepreneur? Would you run marathons, or maybe you feel you would have the potential to earn more money?

So, what really stops us? As there is no difference between you and someone that you aspire to be, right?

Perhaps we believe that some people have more confidence, because they come from a family of confident people. But what if your siblings have more confidence than you? Why would that be the case?

Perhaps you feel that some people are just lucky enough to have more confidence. Do you ever wonder what happens to confident people when they step into new situations, doing something they have never done before. Is it a case of false confidence, and faking it until you make it?

How do we gain more confidence?

Maybe you feel that the more experience we have, the more knowledgeable we are, the more confidence we gain. If so, how do we go about gaining confidence in our health and our wealth? And what about our relationships? After all, we have all been in relationships since the moment of our births—with our parents, our siblings, and other family members. We are all experts at relationships, why do we need more confidence?

And what is the look of a confident of person?

Do confident people dress a certain why, move a certain way, talk a certain way? Does a certain career choice indicate a confident person? Ask yourself who you perceive as being more confident, the CEO of a large company or the cleaner?

What stops you from being more confident?

We all have dreams and aspirations, things we would love to achieve but we feel unable to even start, paralysed by fears of failure, or being laughed at by family or friends as we yearn for something more, something different, something new. Stepping outside of our comfort zone, and making moves to change our situations feels hard, and we believe only 'others' can do that.

So we stay stuck.

Feeling stuck we may turn to jealousy—attacking the lives of others, or feeling envy for the material things that others have, or for what they have achieved. Social media offers us a porthole into peoples' lives, bringing those who we perceive to have more confidence than us into our home environment. Perhaps this allows us to justify the attacks we make on them.

Yet, our individual potential is great, immense even!!!

In truth our individual potential is beyond our own thinking and comprehension. It is our individual thinking that tells us otherwise and keeps us stuck.

What happens if we change our thinking? What happens if we shift our perception? When we change our thinking, we change our lives. When we shift our perception away from believing that others have more confidence than us, and begin to empower ourselves into accepting the unlimited potential that is ours, change will occur.

What happens if we introduce a "WHAT IF..." into our thinking, our dreams, our aspirations?

"WHAT IF the promotion is mine?"

"WHAT IF he likes me as much as I like him?"

"WHAT IF there is more than enough money to go around?"

"WHAT IF I ran the marathon?"

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