July 7, 2014 Focus Point

Increase Your Confidence!

"To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing." ~Fred Durst

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life." ~Marcus Garvey

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." ~Vince Lombardi

Decide to be more confident. Confidence is such a great word and a tremendous attribute that really adds to the quality of life. How would your life benefit from greater confidence? You do not need a reason to be more confident. You don't need to have someone compliment you on the way you look or compliment you on a job well done to have more confidence. You don't need someone to say that they believe in you in order to be more confident. Successful people make it a habit to show all of these courtesy's to others, but their success and confidence is not dependent upon someone else showing the same courtesy to them. They simply take control and decide to be more confident. To increase your confidence starting right now and immediately, all you have to do is decide that: "Today I am going to be more confident." That's it. Decide that today I choose to take control. It is not about being someone or something you are not, but rather being your better self, your best self. What if the hero that you are looking for is already inside you and will develop as you start living more of your potential?

Speak words that give life. Don't base the opinion you have of yourself on what someone else said or did. Don't let past mistakes define your future. Never let the negative opinions of someone else control who you will be. Negativity kills confidence, so learn to speak words that give life. In Proverbs 18:21 we learn that: "Death and life are in the power of the tongue." We must learn to use our words to speak life into our own situation in order for improvement to happen. I believe that any person will perform better if they have confidence and a healthy self image.