Confidence

Dictionary.com defines confidence as freedom from doubt (or) belief in yourself and your abilities.

How important is confidence?

To me it is extremely important. I'm not very susceptible to peer pressure and not very interested in what others think about me. Therefore, the main drive behind my achievements is my own opinion: what I think about myself, of what I do, of where I am and of where I am going. Without confidence in what I'm capable of there is no future for me. Maybe I'm just rambling on about something everyone else already knows or has thought about... regardless, after the last entry discouraging "hope" and "beliefs" I feel I should clear some of it up.

What I am trying to say is that my mom wasn't completely lying to me when she said that all I had to do to achieve something was to believe; she was merely not specific enough. She didn't differentiate between simply "believing" and believing in one's own abilities. To achieve a dream one must keep that dream within the limits of what one's abilities are capable of achieving and then have full confidence in one's own abilities, patience, hard work and diligence to finally reach out and alter that dream into an actualization. Without the confidence to drive us to fight for an ambition one can not expect a fruitful result.

I have to give credit to my aunt for a conversation we had today that led me to this apprehension. Thank you...

July 2006

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