I am the single greatest example of how confidence conquers (no, that’s not boasting). Do I have talent? Yes, but there are plenty more with greater talent than me. Am I good looking? I’m alright. So what is it that separates me from everyone else? What makes me me? Why am I going to be making formidable money one day, and so many others that have more talent and looks won’t be?
Complete, utter, unshakable confidence in myself, confidence that is so high it borders on delusional hubris. I guess it all starts there. Mark Twain, arguably the greatest American writer ever, said it best, “With ignorance and arrogance, success is assured.”
If you sit down and always consider all the possibilities, if you waste your time worrying what others will think, if you ponder whether or not you are good enough, then you never will be.
How does confidence come about? I don’t know. Confidence comes from who you are and a belief in yourself. From within. If you don’t have anything to believe in yourself, then find something or do something that can give you that belief.
When I first started writing, I couldn’t land a writing place anywhere. I kept getting turned down by several different websites, many saying that I would never have the talent to become a writer, that I didn’t have it in me, that I had no ability to interpret prose.
Look at me now.
In the words of Kevin Garnett, NBA champion, who said, when the Boston Celtics won their 17th title this year, “What can you say now?”
Hard work. Passion. Perseverance. An unknown, infused and inflicted belief in yourself that is so impeccable that you are in a zone of believing you’re so immaculate that nothing, no matter how big of a force, can stop you. You can’t rattle that. It’s confidence.
If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
I’m never afraid of failure, because I know if I want to succeed, I have to fail.
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
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I really like this blog, I read it when you first posted it on MySpace, and I’m glad you posted it on here. It’s awesome that you’re so confident. So many people (me being one of them at times) are severly insecure.
Comment by Bekki November 4, 2008 @ 6:25 am