Post Written By Eugene Morgan Correction does much, but encouragement does more. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We need both correction and encouragement. We need correction so that we know what mistakes we’re making. Corrections may sting us a little. However, we become better people. Supports are made to help us to continue improving on […]
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Starting with a Small Seed
Post Written By Eugene Morgan From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. — Aeschylus The easiest way to build confidence is if we set obtainable goals we know we can do. Each time we accomplish a goal our self-reliance increases and we begin to feel comfortable doing it. It doesn’t mean it will […]
Self-Worth Or, Possessions
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. —Thomas A. Edison Thomas is making a distinction between what we are and what we have. The possessions we have are the result of what we are. Therefore, what we do is an expression of what we are. […]
The More We Do
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The more we do, the more we can do. —William Hazlitt In other words, first do what we already can do. The more we do what we already can do, the more confidence we have in ourselves to do more of what we can do. We develop our skills by repetition […]
Hold Head High
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.—Helen Keller It is difficult to experience confidence when we keep our head bent. However, if we hold our head high with confidence we then will experience confidence and that others will see that and want […]
Risk With Fear, Then Live With Confidence
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. — Warren Buffett If we don’t risk, then we take away our choices. When we take away our choices we feel stagnated or stuck. Fear controls when we don’t take risks. So fear can deceive us into believing that there are no choices. For […]
Practice Builds Confidence
Post Written By Eugene Morgan An ounce of practice is worth tons of preaching. — Mahatma Gandhi Practice has a way of building confidence. We may not have confidence in the beginning. However, as we do a skill over and over we will get better than if we don’t practice at all. Practice saves a lot of […]
Building Confidence
Building Confidence
Feeling Sorry For Yourself
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Sometimes it is okay to feel sorry for ourselves. There is a time for that. But we must understand that moping about unfinished or incomplete goals isn’t going to help us to get things done. As long as we stay idle, things will be left undone. If we pace ourselves […]
Doing Things One At A Time
Post Written By Eugene Morgan When we walk with our head down, it is harder for us to feel good about ourselves. If we want to build self-confidence, we can always start by working on something that we know we can do and just do it. We have all experience getting to chores we’ve been […]
Confidence Building
Post Written By Eugene Morgan It’s all right to start out small. For us to gain a feeling of confidence, we must start accomplishing small things first. The small things that are not as threatening like things that we know we can do. Confident building is important when it comes to accomplishing a task. We […]
Doubt and Beliefs
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Just like the chicken or the egg, what came first— doubt or belief about what we can’t do? When we have doubts in our abilities we fuel the belief that we can’t do something. If we believe we can’t do this or that, then it becomes true. If we let […]
Act The Part, The Part Is Yours
Post Written By Eugene Morgan If we act the part, then we will become the part. If we pretend to be confident long enough, then we will probably begin feeling some confidence. We begin to feel confidence because we do things that reinforce our confidence. Feeling confidence about one’s self is really about depending more […]
Be Confident Being You
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Instead of being impressed about the confidence that another may have, we ought to be confident being ourselves because being confident in ourselves means self-acceptance. Without self-acceptance there is no confidence. Being confident means feeling good about our selves while in the moment. When we’re confident in ourselves others take […]