Success is about belief and confidence
EVERy day when you say, see you tomorrow to someone, you are practicing confidence.
When you say you will go to town during the weekend, you are practically practicing belief and confidence.
The truth is you are not guaranteed to see anyone tomorrow when you say see you tomorrow.
you or that person can be hit by a car or can suffer a heart attack and never see tomorrow. Or something less tragic may happen — you can be forced to go somewhere different and fail to see the person you said you would see tomorrow. yet you speak it as if it will happen- and usually, it does doesn’t it? That is the power of confidence!
Even if you ask any teacher, they will tell you they decided to be teachers.
Once they made the decision they were certain they would be teachers one day. Those that doubted probably didn’t make it and they are not teachers right now. Likewise, Neil Armstrong decided to go walk on the moon. He believed it would happen with full confidence.
He even took a flag, imagining how he would stick it on the moon the same way you imagine giving someone a gift before the event happens.
That is the power of confidence. Perhaps the best visible illustration of confidence is in sprint athletes. Let’s use the greatest 100m race ever run on earth as an example. Jamaican legend Usain Bolt stood at the starting line of the 100m final race at the Berlin 2009 World Athletics Championships.
Asafa Powell, Tyson Gay and, Usain Bolt – then the three fastest men in the world lined up for that race.
That year, no one had run faster than Tyson Gay.
The American had clocked 9.77 seconds and was the fastest American ever.
Asafa Powell was the former world record holder and he must have wanted that title back.
It was a line-up of the eight fastest men in the world from five different countries with tens of thousands of spectators watching live and millions watching from home.
But Bolt was the most confident of these athletes.
He had just won three gold medals the previous year at the Beijing Olympics, breaking three world records in the process.
He had set a new 100m world record of 9.69 seconds and everyone was out to beat him.
Could they beat him? yes!
Were they confident about it? No!
All of them hoped they would beat Bolt, and all of them wished they would win gold but none of them believed they would do it.
But Bolt, he knew he was winning. He knew it!
That is how confidence works. It gives you certainty about things not yet beheld.
Bolt knew he was winning the same way you know where you will be tomorrow.
Another aspect about Bolt is he didn’t care about his opponents, they cared about him!
All he wanted was to do his best. He knew if he did his best, he would achieve what he wanted- which was to be a world champion and to set a new world record. you need to apply that attitude in life. Set goals and go after them with full confidence and you will soon swim in glory.
Do not look at anyone as competition, just do your best as you work towards your set goal. If they consider your competition, then the best they can be is the standard you have already set.
Bolt was already the Olympic champion and the fastest man.
The world with a world record of 9.69 seconds.
Did he stop dreaming bigger? No.
He wanted to be better than he was. Likewise, you should also aim to continuously improve yourself until you reach your fullest potential.
What was the result of Bolt’s ambition belief and confidence?
He smashed his world record and set a new one of 9.58 to become the only man to ever run 100m in under 9.6 seconds. Today, almost 15 years later, that record still stands.
That is what happens when you push yourself to the limit, you not only achieve your goals but you become a trendsetter. We may never see such a race ever again in our lifetime.
That is what belief and confidence can do.
you are not an athlete but you have dreams. Believe in yourself, believe in your dream, and see yourself experiencing it.
Feel your dream. Be confident you will live it! Remember, it’s the little things that count. —