Holding Faith (Self Belief)

A person who holds self belief is someone who will take action until they have in their
life what it is they always believed they would get. It is impressive to see someone do this,
an athlete, sportsman, successful businessman, anyone, we immediately think they have
something a little extra that got them to where they are, but it isn’t the case, they just
believed in themselves, and it isn’t just exceptional talent either which we sometime
attribute to other peoples success, as when people adopt an empowering belief they often
find talents they never knew they had.
There are many people who simply don’t believe they will be successful, and this stops
them dead in their tracks. Your brain will not take steps to make anything in your life a
reality unless it is backed up by an unwavering, constant, rock solid self belief. People
can sometimes have more faith in a stray dog getting food every night then they do in
themselves achieving anything of value, or getting what they want in life.
Lacking self belief is like starting a journey, but already knowing you are never going to
reach the destination, sooner or later you will realize it is pointless continuing and so you
will stop and give up. With self belief you wouldn’t have this problem, you would just
keep going, until you reached your destination.
If you got on a bus with a destination in mind, but the driver confirmed to you that the
bus didn’t go there, would you still buy a ticket and ride anyway? Probably not, then why
bother setting off on a journey to create a new life for yourself if you don’t really believe
it will happen? Nobody starts a journey and hopes they acquire some self belief along the
way, your tank (self belief) needs to be full before you start.
Ask yourself this, what exactly are you attempting to make happen that you can’t have
some self belief in yourself. Is your goal to feed, clothe and look after 500,000 starving
children, or are you planning to arrange a tea party on the moon for a group of 25 senior
citizens. Just what is it you want to achieve in life? It is about having a firm belief in your
abilities to do what is necessary to take your life to the next level. It is not about having
faith in 100 strangers you just met on the street to get you there, but faith in the one
person you know better than anyone else in the world. Is it really so hard to believe in
yourself? What sort of journey do think it will be if you decide to not really believe that
you will get what you want, but you will try anyway? How far do you think you will get?