Self-assurance: A Key to
Success
I feel it’s something that is always there,
something you’re born with that gets lost along the way, or stolen by others.
Sometimes you have to dig deep to find it again. (Amy Lee Tempest)
Self-assurance
is the key to bring smile at your face even in the worst situations of life. It
relates to self-confidence in your personal abilities, judgment and power. Self-confident
people have the qualities that everyone admires. It is one of the tools to
improve your abilities, to bring you in front of people and to let you be
contented on what you are. When you are self-confident it means you commit
yourself to success. Because you are contented with yourself, so you don’t need
others approval, because you believe in yourself, you don’t need to convince
others, because when you accept yourself, the whole world will accept you. If
you are having a right amount of self-confidence, neither under confident, nor
over-confident then you take risks, you stretch yourself within your inner
potential but not beyond your abilities and finally you exert maximum effort to
do anything you want. Whenever you get struck in difficult situation, you try
your best to bring yourself out of this situation. As Maya Angelou has said “Nothing can dim the light which shines
from within”.
The
people who are self-confident know how to build it. They have belief in
themselves, in their abilities, in their potentials. Whatever the situation
comes into their life, they run on the appropriate level of emotions. They are
reliable and confident in themselves. They live their life to the fullest and
also help others to tackle the situations. They are never disappointed because
they know that they have power to pass through uncomfortable circumstances. In
fact, this improves their skill more to get though any life experience.
An individual's
self-confidence can vary in different environments as well as in different
stages of life also. You
might have seen that there are persons who have knowledge but don’t have
confidence to speak in front of people. Public speaking is terrible for them,
they avoid networking. They usually are afraid that they might be insulted in
front of others, they are not sure that what they are speaking is true or
authentic, they are afraid that anyone can challenge it, this is all because
they have low level of self-assurance. So
in this way social life of these persons become horrible.
An
individual can have natural self-confidence or he can build it by knowing that
what hidden potential he has. You get inner strength when you are determined,
when your brain has a clear goal to work towards. Think specifically about your
inner strength, and in which field you are best in. Focus on a particular
situation where you want to feel confident in. Confidence builds itself when
you attach yourself with something specific.
Confidence
comes, not from knowing you know everything, but from knowing you can handle
what comes up. (Donn King)
By:
Saadia Aslam, MPhil Scholar at Center of Excellence in Molecular
Biology, University of Punjab, Lahore.
