Confidence Post, Let me know your thoughts!

We see people every day with it but what is it, what is confidence?
It is something we strive for, something we live for. Yet most of us don’t even know how to become confident. Is it even possible to gain confidence? If so how can we do it?
Confidence is something we all have within us, we are born with it. For some of us, it comes easy and for others it is so far away that we don’t even think it exists.
If you are one of these people who think that confidence is not within your reach. There are ways to get closer and ways to becoming a confidence beast!
Now these ways are not easy, nor will they take a week to complete. You need to practice these tasks and games like any other thing you are good at.
Let us take brushing out teeth for example. Everyone has a dominant hand, whether it is right or left it does not matter. Think of how easy and how often you brush your teeth.
I brush my teeth twice a day, I may miss a morning or a night a couple times a week but that is okay. The next time you brush your teeth, try brushing with your non dominant hand. How hard is it to do this?
For me it was extremely hard, I could not get my non dominant hand to do what I wanted. This is because our whole lives we have been using our dominant hand. Every day!
If only we could practice being confident every day. Oh wait we can! It is that easy and you will see the same effect as with brushing your teeth.
The key factor here is time and practice but practice is hard and no one has time for it, Right? Well consider how little time you spend brushing your teeth. One minute? Two minutes? Let us say five minutes every day.
Does not seem like a lot does it? Then why is it so hard for us to do this?
Well for those of you suffering with mental illness, this sort of thing can be extremely difficult. You may have a lot of negativity inside your head that is hard to ignore.
Let us remember that the mind works on repetition; for example going to the gym four times a week for three months to gain 5 pounds of muscle. You can’t gain that five pounds of muscle after a single workout, no matter how hard you workout.
Confidence works the same way; you need to keep forcing it into your daily lifestyle. Over time it will get stronger and stronger just like going to the gym, except it’s for your brain... the brain gym.
Like any gym there are multiple different exercises you can do in order to work out your body and the brain gym is the exact same. There are a multiple of different exercises you can do to work out your brain. Let us focus on confident exercises for now.
Confidence means appreciating yourself, appreciating what you have and what you have done. Think for a minute what confident people thoughts might be.
Maybe something along the lines of; I like myself. I worked hard to get here and I deserve this. There is no reason not to be happy. I can do anything I want.
Do these sound familiar or foreign to you? If they sound foreign then start saying them in your head. And keep saying them because the mind works on repetition and you need to take your brain to the gym.