10 Things Confident People Don’t Do
Confidence is a key factor in resilient living. What is confidence? A healthy self-assurance and belief in your abilities and the positive contribution you are making.
During times of adversity, confidence keeps you moving and fuels the engine of hope and possibility. In this article I want to inspire you with what not to do so you’ll see more clearly what to do.
10 Things Confident People DON’T Do*
1. Confident people don’t make excuses
Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. — American Proverb
Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. — Steven Grayhm
2. Confident people don’t give up
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
3. Confident people don’t wait for permission to act
If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. — Grace Hopper
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Confident people don’t seek attention
I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein
5. Confident people don’t need praise
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Joseph Addison
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale
6. Confident people don’t put things off
You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again. — Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday. – Napoleon Hill
7. Confident people don’t pass judgment
Love people for who they are, instead of judging them for what they’re not. — Sevenly
By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
8. Confident people don’t avoid conflict
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in. – Alan Alda
The more we run from conflict, the more it masters us; the more we try to avoid it, the more it controls us; the less we fear conflict, the less it confuses us; the less we deny our differences, the less they divide us. – David Augsburger
9. Confident people don’t let the lack of resources get in their way
It’s not the lack of resources that cause failure, it’s the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure. – Tony Robbins
I do believe that out of adversity comes incredible resourcefulness. – Phil Keoghan
10. Confident people don’t get too comfortable
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — William G.T. Shedd
Don’t get too comfortable with who you are at any given time— you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be. — Jon Bon Jovi
May this reminder stir up your confidence and inspire you to be who you were created to be.
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If you want more confidence when faced with setbacks and unexpected detours, check out my roadmap for when life gets rerouted – Detour: A Roadmap For When Life Gets Rerouted.
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