Heart Advice

7 Ways To Feel More Confident Right Now

''Self-confidence isn't a quality you just wake up with one day. It isn't necessarily something you're born with either. It is built over time. The key word here is built. For most of my life, I have felt crippled by feelings of unworthiness; it seeped through every ounce of my being and rendered the world a big, scary place.

I had to build my self-confidence over the years, stone by stone. Many days, my self-doubts were like ghosts tormenting me, whispering "you will end up the laughingstock." Ironically, it is at the bottom of the pit, surrounded by the echoes of my fears, that I grew my wings.

Sometimes I wonder if my life would have been different, if I would be the same person I am today, had I followed a perfectly straight life path—where all the thorny bushes had been cut clean, and dirt had been swept off the way for me. Perhaps I would have dared to ask myself:..''

by Carine Genicot