Confindence In all aspects

 

I have noticed especially in the past few weeks that confidence seems to be a reoccurring theme in everything that I partake inside and outside of scholastics. In class my teachers are talking about confidence as more of a way to get out of our shells that we placed ourselves in high school. Our teachers want us to talk more, set up times where we can discuss things we are struggling with, and be active in class discussions. Not to mention the classes that ask us to attack our readings with a confidence that shows how good of a reader we truly are. Being an athlete we always are told to be confident not cocky. The football team is not doing what we all believed that we would do, so our coaches are telling us that we need to still be confident in our talents although our record does not reflect what we thought it would. The coaches want us to be confident in each other as well. They want us to not only believe in our talents as individuals, but as a team as well. In my social life I have hit a weird stage of getting dumped for no apparent reason at all. So even though I know that I did not do anything wrong in my three year relationship, I still find it hard to keep confidence in myself. I feel like because I was shocked by the break up that I have lost a lot of my confidence. So basically it took all of this to say that obviously confidence is very important in many aspects of life. When I focus on each aspect that I need to have confidence in, I realize that confidence is only a mindset. Like any mindset I notice that it is easy to change it either negatively or positively. Simply telling myself something can help out my confidence or take it all away. In the class room if I tell myself that I cannot simply read these fifteen pages, I find that it is a lot more difficult to get through that chapter than it would be if I would have just believed in myself. When I am trying to catch a pass and I have second thoughts about whether or not I am able to do so, is when I seem to make mistakes. When I act shy around people because I blame myself for a break up that was not my fault, is when I seem to not make friends. All in all confidence as important as it is in all aspects of life, it can easily be swayed by keeping a positive mindset on whatever you are trying to focus on.