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Importance of Confidence in life - Success Mantra 7
In Success mantra 6 - Positive Thinking, I showed you the power of positive thinking. Today, it is time to understand another important attribute required for success which is called Confidence.
We hear a lot about confidence and its importance in life; however, we still find many people ignoring its importance in life. After 15 years of professional experience and reading success stories of numbers of successful people, I can only say that confidence is the most important ingredient for the recipe of success.
If a person has all the qualities to succeed except confidence, then the chances of his success decrease by many times. Why confidence is so important for success? The answer is quite simple, we live in a social environment and depend on people for our success.
Those who have control over our success, they rate us through our confidence. For example, in an interview, a person with good confidence has more chances of getting a job than a person who lacks confidence. Even sometimes, a person with fewer marks or lower qualification is selected over a candidate with more marks or higher qualification because he shows good confidence in an interview.
Even if we leave the interview behind and take the example of common life, then you can see the difference yourself. We all love to give the responsibility for important tasks to a friend or a person who has a good confidence level. We all avoid people lacking confidence in important tasks because we know that they may not complete the task on time.
You can imagine all the important and successful leaders in your mind, what you like most about them? Is it not their confidence level? This is a true finding that confidence is one of the top ingredients for success in life. People love to follow, listen, or talk to a person who shows good confidence.
How people walk, how they talk, how they manage situations? Everything tells about their confidence level. With confidence, it becomes much easier to do many tasks and influence the people who have control over our success.
The good point about confidence is that it can come with practice and anyone can improve his or her confidence level by improving his shortcomings and by facing their fears. When I see myself, 20 years back, then I see a person lacking confidence and I was afraid to face many situations.
Therefore, my life was much a failure at that time; though, with time, I learned my lessons and improved myself. As I started facing my fears more often so I started seeing an increase in my confidence level day by day. Today, many of my old friends feel surprised to see this change in me and some even don't like it because they were happy with me as a person lacking confidence.
Thanks to my efforts and help of people who loves me, I am a confident person who can face any situation; therefore, I am becoming successful too.
You can also change your life by adding confidence to it if you lack it. Simply start facing fears and learn new skills to improve your personality, soon with practice you will see much increase in your confidence.
Though, confidence is very important for success; however, it is not everything and we must also remain away from overconfidence (a state where we overestimate our potential).
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