Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles, and less than perfect conditions. So what? Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful.

Mark Victor Hansen

Inner confidence is by far the most important aspect of success and how much you enjoy your life. Unless you understand how to manage it you could have it one minute and lose it the next. Some people have it naturally and some people have to work on it their whole lives. Certainly people who are successful in whatever area they dedicate themselves to have it compared to those who just bumble by in life and probably don´t.

With rock solid inner confidence you will be able to move mountains.

Give me a place to stand and I will move the world.

Archimedes

The famous book called, ‘Think and Grow Rich’ written by Napoleon Hill is all about inner confidence.

Hill was hired by one of the most successful business men of his time to meet and interview some of America’s most powerful people, businessmen, generals and politicians.

In the first few pages of the book Hill explains that upon talking with these people they all repeated the same secret to their success. He said that their secret would be referred to throughout the book and the reader had to discover it in the book themselves. He said the answer was so simple they wouldn’t believe him if he just came right out and quoted it. In fact, if you haven’t already read the book, the secret was not only referred to throughout the book but was even written in bold letters on the very front cover of the book as the title, ‘Think and Grow Rich’.

Napoleon Hill, after asking what all the top people in America in that day thought was the secret to their success, discovered it was just that, thinking! Thinking about how to achieve their goals, believing they could reach their goals, dreaming about reaching their goals and persevering in their pursuit of reaching their goals. They felt so strong inside about their goals that nothing would stop them or sway them because to them, there was no other option.

Tom Hopkins in, ‘Your Personal Guide to Success’ wrote that if you are a sales manager and you want to be a sales director, you have to start dressing like a sales director, acting like a sales director, breathing like a sales director and eventually you will become a sales director.

Inner confidence is a term used to describe how you feel inside. Inner confidence is the difference between walking up to your boss or client confidently and feeling relaxed when you ask for a promotion or the deal and not being able to because your mind and body is so gripped with fear you feel paralysed to the spot.

Every part of your life is affected by your inner confidence. When you go to take a penalty kick and miss because your legs turn to jelly is due to a lack of inner confidence. When you are acting on stage and start stammering or forget you lines it is your inner confidence letting you down. When you give a speech and your mouth goes so dry you can´t pronounce your words it is your mind in need of stronger inner confidence.

Master your inner confidence and you will master your life

You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is what gives you the courage to embark on a new adventure, strive for your dreams and step out of your comfort zone. Men and women who have made their mark in this world had their inner confidence working for them to carry them along their path to their true destiny. When things got tough they found their inner strength to look failure, and in some cases death, in the face and do it anyway against all the odds.

Inner confidence needs to be developed, honed, strengthened and nurtured. Even if you feel super confident already you still need to work on it. Some people have rock solid confidence in some areas and are pussy cats in others. The people who succeed in life, even though they already have the attributes needed to reach their goals, nearly always look for ways to better themselves and improve. There is always room for growth and if you are not growing you are stagnating.

If you have ever attended a course on personal development you will always find successful people attending and sitting right at the front of the audience. If you read books on self development they are always dotted with referrals from successful people recommending the book and the benefits of reading it. Why? Because successful people understand the benefits of improving in all areas of life and constantly strive for new ways, methods, techniques and theories about how to achieve it.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?

Marianne Williamson