Having Low Self-Confidence? It’s OK
Why it’s common to have low self-confidence and how to get out of it
The sun always rises the next morning.
Suffering from low self-confidence can be really damaging to your life, especially if you suffer from it for long spells at a time.
If you’re someone who has never experienced having low self-confidence, then I hope you never have to. But if you have — just like the millions of others out there, here’s something you should know.
It’s OK to go through it.
It really is.
In today’s world of amazing technology, fast pace and feeling the pressure of wanting to win the rat race, we are never short of trying to compare ourselves to others, especially those who are of the same age, race, religion and profession as us.
We also tend to look at those we follow on social media like Facebook and Instagram and compare our lives to them.
We see how perfect their lives are. We see them going on our dream holidays, driving our dream cars, staying in our dream homes and living our dream lives. We get jealous, we get frustrated, we get angry and we ask the question.
Why?
Why isn’t my life like that?
Why am I the one who isn’t living THAT life?
You feel down, you feel sad, your self-confidence suffers from all those comparisons. You feel like you’re not enough.
Not good enough.
Not smart enough.
Not good looking enough.
Just never enough.
But you ARE enough.
The truth is, you are good enough. You’re better than you give yourself credit for. You just need to see that and to stop comparing yourself to others.
You are individually unique.
You have your own sets of positive assets.
You have skills and traits that no one else have.
It’s OK to feel like you’re not enough sometimes, just as long as you don’t believe that is how you will be for the rest of your life.
And don’t feel like you’re alone whenever you feel down.
A lot of people go through that too.
The people that you follow on Instagram? The ones who you think have the perfect like that you want? They go through it too. A-list celebrities? They go through it too.
No one is immune to feeling down from time to time. It’s how you react to when you do feel it.
As long as you know that you’re not alone when it happens to you, you know that you can get through it too. If others can, so can you.
You know why?
Because you’re good enough.
Because you’re smart enough.
Because you’re good looking enough.
You are enough.
Just like how the sun always rises at the start of a new morning, so can your confidence. Each new day is a new beginning for you. A new dawn to do something for yourself.
Instead of wishing you had all the things that you see those on social media, go and make those things happen for yourself.
Be the one that others will want to look up to.
Be someone who inspires.
Because, that’s just who we all we born to be.
Our purpose in life is to help one another.
It truly is one of the biggest meaning and purpose in life that we have. To be of service to others so that we can all rise together.
Remember, you are enough.
If you feel like you are not, remember that you are and others think and know that you are.
I may not know you personally, all of you who are reading this.
But I know that the fact you’re here, the fact that you are reading this, that you already know deep down you’re enough and you will be OK.
Author’s note: Like myself, I’ve seen so many others go through life thinking that they’re not good enough, constantly suffering from low self-confidence, always having self-doubt.
We need to remind ourselves that we are all created enough, meant to serve our meaning in life the best way we possibly can. Even when times may say otherwise, we need to believe in ourselves and those around us who believes in us too.
We are OK.
We are enough.
