Mojam's E2 Journal

[mojamhaque]

‘The world is full of people who are trying to purchase self-confidence, or manufacture it, or who simply posture it. But you can’t fake confidence, you have to earn it. If you ask me, the only way to do that is work. You have to do the work.’- Lance Armstrong

If we want to do anything with confidence – speak, paint, make love, play tennis or socialise – then we have to do the work. We have to practise the necessary skills over and over, until they come naturally. If we don’t have adequate skills to do the things we want to do, we can’t expect to feel confident. And if we don’t continually practise these skills, they either get rusty and unreliable, or they never reach a state where we can fluidly and naturally rely on them.

Each time you practise these skills, it is an action of confidence: an act of relying on yourself. And once you have taken action, over and over, so that you have the skills to get the results you want – then you’ll start to notice the feelings of confidence.