Hindustan Times (Bathinda)

BELIEVING IN YOURSELF IS A MUST TO ACHIEVE TARGETS IN YOUR LIFE

- PP Wangchuk (Inner Voice comprises contributi­ons from our readers. The views expressed are personal) Innervoice@hindustant­imes.com

One of the most important things in life, in my view, is to have self-belief. Unless you believe in yourself, you cannot believe in anything else, and that would create a negative attitude and atmosphere, bad for yourself and the rest of the society around you.

The first thing for success in life is to convince yourself that you can and you will. Once this kind of conditioni­ng is set up, all other things follow suit as if nature itself is doing everything for you.

Your subconscio­us mind is made of your thoughts, conviction, and beliefs, and it will drive you exactly the way your thoughts are marshalled.

It is like a hard-drive that stores all kinds of data until you change them.

Self-belief helps you rise up after a failure. That is why British self-help author Stephen Richards had said, “The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.”

That means you can bounce back only when you are fully convinced that you failed because of no fault of yours. Once this idea sinks into your mind, you will be like a determined soldier who will come back or die on the battlefiel­d after killing many of his enemies.

As the saying goes, dare to dream, we should also say: Dare to have conviction and self-belief. Only then one can get ready for any challenge in life.

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