Perfectly Confident

Perfectly Confident explores the idea of confidence and offers a series of valuable practices that anyone can implement in their life to improve this aspect, as well as an overview of how confidence is supposed to look and feel like in its realest form, without adding or subtracting too much of it.

In life, we have to go for what we truly want and don’t let anything stop us. Isn’t that what the world is all about nowadays? In big lines, this advice is motivational and quite helpful, if you’re looking to get your life together. However, mastering the way you seize opportunities, form connections, create your public persona, all comes down to using the right amount and form of confidence.

Naturally, you want to seem like the type of person who knows what they’re doing, and that’s understandable. You want to make a good impression and have people come to you, right? Still, learning how to tell if you’re being overly confident is a trait people like to learn the hard way. If you let your intuition run the days for you, you’ll end up becoming unsuccessful. Too much confidence leads to poor performance, and that’s a fact.

Just look at all the retail investors betting their life savings on “that one multi-million dollar stock” only to lose it all, or the people buying mortgages in 2008 thinking that they know what they’re doing. Lack of input, hard work, and an unhealthy dose of confidence is what interfered with those people’s success. Allow confidence to nurture your motivation, but don’t let it interfere with your work.

Underconfidence is another problem some people face. Just like overconfidence, this negative state of mind can interfere with your journey towards success. As humans, we like to see the worst in everything. So when we compare ourselves with others, chances are we won’t like the results. It’s easier said than done, but stop comparing yourself to whatever you see in others. For starters, you can’t know if you’re in the same phase of the process as the other person. Chances are, you’re just looking at their finished products. Secondly, you can’t tell their weak spots, as nobody likes to show those. Thirdly, you don’t really know how hard they worked and struggled for the outcome. And if they did, they did it long before you even started. Another toxic habit to break is trying to forecast everything to the slightest detail. Simply put, you just can’t be right all the time, as nobody knows the future. Sure, plans and strategies are a great way to assess probabilities, but always prepare to face the worst outcome, along with the best. Therefore, make forecasts that…