“Fake it till you make it” is not sustainable and often fails to deliver. Why? Because if we don’t believe in our own worth, pretending that we do is not going to cut it long-term. To building confidence, we need to search deep and fix what’s broken, not act as if it never happened.
True confidence comes from competence, from knowledge, from knowledge, from experience. So how do we become better versions of ourselves? BY emptying our cups – that is, by being willing to quiet our minds, listen, observe, learn…💕
Self-doubt often breeds insecurity. Insecurity, in turn, shatters our confidence. Hence, too much self-questioning is not a fruitful undertaking. So, when you feel a lack of certainty, do this: breathe deep, identify the intruder thoughts and silence them. Let them pass and be on their way. Learning to quiet our minds, in the chaos and …
The root of our discontent with the world is often a disguised discontent with ourselves. For the world merely reacts to our own feelings toward ourselves. Therefore, to demand respect from others, we need to first learn how to respect ourselves. To attract love, we must start by loving ourselves. Self-acceptance is, then, the requisite …
To base our worth on others’ opinions means leaving our fate to people who often don’t have our best interests at heart. Perhaps, a better way to value ourselves is to look inwards to our own strengths, skills and talents. And to trust ourselves that we are worth every second of the life we want …
It’s probably fair to say that we all have been there—at a point in our lives where we’ve felt more as the mere spectators than the action heroes in our own stories. We’ve watched opportunities slip away but were unable to grasp them. And there wasn’t much we could do to change all that. As …
*This piece was posted on Thrive Global* Not too long ago, I returned back to work full-time, after my son turned one year old. We put him in daycare, and he used to cry every morning for the first month or so. It broke my heart and it made me feel as I wasn’t a caring enough …