Self-confidence attracts power

Self-confidence attracts power

When you are confident, people want to be around you because they want to learn from you, play with you and experience life with you. Self-confidence is attractive and powerful


Alack of self-confidence can have many causes, including a desire to convince others, and a need to draw support from others, instead of just being yourself. For example, we may fear that others will discover what an awful person we are. Of course, it sounds funny when we say it like that. But as Gods children we are not awful! And we have no call to feel a lack of self-confidence . Ive often thought, Im the last person who ought to be starting communities for my Guru! And yet, the job is there to be done, and theres no one else doing it, so here goes!" The whole secret lies in simply accepting that we, of ourselves, really can't do anything right, but that God through us can literally do anything! I've often found that understanding comes to me not so often through ideas, counsel, etc., as through being with the right kind of people. Mixing with people who are negative, or who see life too much in terms of problems, tends to influence one to see things in negative terms. On the other hand, when we mix with people who are basically positive not because they live in a dream world, but because they meet life's challenges with courage that association tends to make us strong in ourselves: to become solutionconscious rather than problem-conscious . The company of strong people influences us to discover ways to surmount our own problems. When you are confident, people are attracted to you. You find that people want to be around you for all kinds of reasons to learn from you, to play with you, to experience life with you and for many, many other reasons. Self-confidence is attractive. It is powerful. I repeat: Forget yourself, and ask God to use you as He will badly, if you get in the way, but even so, He can use you to whatever extent you let him. Forget yourself, and leave the problem of success vs failure in His hands. Do your best, with His power, and forget it. (www.anandaindia.org)