What do we most need when we feel insecure and hopeless? Confidence and trust. And when is it most difficult to have them? When we are insecure and hopeless.
Life is a tug between opposing forces. Hope and despair. Love and hatred. Light and dark.
And we all experience such pressure so often to give into the negative forces.
I know that I have. Throughout my life I’ve seen so much reason to doubt myself, doubt other people, not forgive, see the bad rather than the good in people.
And I haven’t always been able to push back.
But what I’ve learned is that I do want to push back.
I want to honour myself and the values I’m committed to. I want to honour my faith in the good in people.
I don’t want anything or anyone outside of me to dictate who I am. To shape my beliefs or actions.
I don’t want external forces to make me betray the life I’m committed to creating, the principles I want to uphold.
I’ve had a lot of pressure lately to betray my convictions.
And I have been reminding myself that it is most valuable to resist that pressure, when it’s most difficult to do so.
I choose to fight fear. I choose to fight doubt in myself and others.
I choose to choose humanity.
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