Confidence is crucial to any undertaking

Dear readers,

Today I have a great chance to share my opinion with you on the importance of confidence.

To start with I would like to answer the question: “What is confidence?”.  As I see it, the belief that you are able to do things well/ knowing that you are good at something/ knowing that you can do and will do something better after your efforts stands for confidence. It is worth saying that we should not confuse confidence with the feeling that you are better than others (but it is another food for thought).

I am convinced that confidence is crucial to any undertaking because the success of your work is influenced by this belief/ this knowing. 

To prove my point of view I have decided to provide the example based on my own experience. I was not a top-student and I did not get straight “A”s. Moreover, I did not succeed in Math at all, when I studied in the middle school (from 5 to 9 grade in Russia). But at the end of the 8^th grade I made a decision that I wanted to get rid of problems with Math and graduate from the middle school with honours. I started to work hard, but instead of supporting words I was receiving only “It’s impossible” even from my Mom. It was only my confidence that influenced the success of my work; that helped me to achieve my desired goal.

Concluding, I advise you to work on your confidence by practicing performance and public speaking whenever the opportunity arises. They say that the more confident you are, the more risks you are going to take, and the more you are going to eventually achieve.