24 Feb 2008 01:27:41 | Marlene Challis
Have you ever thought, “If I just had more self-confidence, if
I was just more sure of myself and my abilities, I know I could
be successful?”
Discover how to replace your fears and doubts with a powerful
self-confidence that will allow you to achieve your dreams and
goals!
An excellent way to feed the mind with material for positive
thinking is to commit to memory some of the sayings of great men
and to ponder them at leisure. This assists in establishing a
standard of truth, and at the same time feeds the mind with many
nourishing and useful thoughts. Here are some examples:
"The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much
of that which we have in others.''--La Rochefoucauld.
“‘Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at
all.'' --Tennyson.
"He who has once been very foolish will at no other time be very
wise.''--Montaigne.
"Nothing is said nowadays that has not been said
before.''--Terence.
'' He must necessarily fear many, whom many fear.''--Seneca.
"Courage in danger is half the battle." --Plautus.
"The multitude is always in the wrong." --Dillon.
"Thought once awakened does not again slumber.''--Carlyle.
'' Second thoughts, they say, are best.'' --Dryden.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the
flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their
life is bound in shallows and in miseries." --Shakespeare.
A source of inspiration to one who would cultivate
self-confidence is that of mingling with self-confident men. We
grow to be like those with whom we associate.
Human society is the great leveler, taking man out of himself,
and teaching him the power of sympathy and unselfishness. Man
was not made to live alone, and it is only in some form of
service to others that he attains unto the truest greatness.
Confidence is marked by composure, fear by haste. It is the sum
of a man's habits that determines what he is. Few people realize
the difference between the thought habits of a fearful man and
those of one who is self-confident.
Some men devote all their lives to little things and wonder why
they never achieve anything worth while. It is as though a man
should content himself with conducting a peanut-stand when all
the while he might be a great lawyer.
Self-imposed limitation, a wrong idea of values, or a narrow and
perverted view of life, holds many a man in bondage who might be
scaling the heights. It is said that there are still business
men who use the backs of old envelopes for scribbling paper
while writing-pads may be bought cheaply.
Every man is more or less conscious at the close of day of
duties unfulfilled, of work neglected, or of opportunities lost.
He realizes sometimes how much more he might have done. He may
well ask himself the cause of these repeated failures. Is it
lack of will? Is it want of energy, definiteness, or initiative?
If he would take conscious possession of the powers within him,
all these faculties might quickly be developed. It is not
surprising that men fall so far short of their ideal when they
make so little effort to attain it.
Here is a simple, proven, step-by-step plan that will allow you
to achieve the self-confidence you have always dreamed of having
– in as few as 31 short days!
So by means of systematic self-culture, patiently and
persistently building one stone at a time, there at length
emerges a strong magnetic, self-confident personality. These
foundation stones are:
1. Poise
2. Optimism
3. Wisdom
4. Earnestness
5. Realization
6. Patience
7. Deliberateness
8. Faith
9. Unselfishness
10. Promptitude
11. Health
12. Silence
13. Self-confidence
14. Sincerity
15. Concentration
16. Love
17. Power
18. Temperance
19. Sympathy
20. Geniality
21. Truth
22. Speech
23. Duty
24. Purity
25. Definiteness
26. Integrity
27. Enthusiasm
28. Justice
29. Tact
30. Imagination
31. Personality
To read more and find out what to do for each of the 31 days,
visit
www.self-help-motivation-source.com/selfconfidencenow.html
About Author :
Marlene Challis is founder and CEO of Mc Internet Marketing. She
has several business branches and websites. She can be contacted
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