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Let's get one thing clear: If you are not living the life you deserve to live, you are dying. I know it sounds kinda harsh. I know it's definitely an extreme way to put things, but sometimes, if you are numb to certain realities, you need an extreme wake up call.
This is one of those. In fact, if you think about it, there's really not much difference between human beings and sharks as far as living is concerned. Like a shark, humans need to move forward or they start sinking. When sharks sink, they die.
The same applies to you. Now, please understand that if you're not pushing yourself to the limit or trying to live up to your fullest potential, it's not like you're going to die immediately. But something inside you starts to get weak, starts to get soft, starts to waste away and yes, eventually, parts of you die.
There are so many of us walking around with tombstones in our eyes because we did not live out our fullest potential. We're not living nowhere near the level that we're capable of performing at. This is why so many people feel stuck, frustrated and discouraged.
There are many reasons for this. But one of the biggest causes is low self-confidence. Here are 10 of the many ways low self-confidence keeps you from living the life of victory you could otherwise be living.
You may be thinking, “if an opportunity presented itself, why the world would I not take it?” it's one thing to think about things a certain way, it's another to actually behave a certain way. If you're completely honest with yourself or in any way, shape or form feeling stuck or frustrated with your life, you probably are the type of person to look a gift horse in the mouth.
In other words, you are aware that you are presented with an opportunity, but you're doubtful. You're skeptical. You're trying to figure out what the catch is. You do this with one opportunity after another and soon enough, the opportunities dry up.
Well, they're still around. The problem is you're not allowing yourself to see them because all you can see is the downside. You have such a low view of your ability to get things done regardless of the challenges that you set a very high bar for yourself as far as opportunities go.
In other words, you're looking for something that has absolutely no catch. I don't mean to be the person to break this to you, but the reason why opportunities are opportunities in the first place is because there is a risk to them.
The higher the risk, the higher the reward. Unfortunately, your low self-confidence has really reduced your tolerance for risk, uncertainty and the potential for loss that you fail to see opportunities. Even if they do present, you don't take them.
Even if you are very competent in certain areas of your life, it's very easy to give in to the temptation of coasting. I really can't say I blame you. If you do certain things very well and you produce certain results predictably, it's very easy to think that that's all you need.
It's very easy to think that the rewards that you're getting is enough for you and your needs and you really don't have to apply yourself any further. Believe it or not, this applies to almost everybody because the default standard, as far as the human condition is concerned, is to take the path of least resistance.
Laziness is actually a pretty shallow word for this. It's something deeper. With everything else being equal, if given a choice, we would rather take the easy way out. This is guaranteed. So, when you are presented with opportunities to coast, you instinctively take them.
Even if you're not given such opportunities, you try to coast anyway. After all, why beat yourself up unnecessarily, right? Here's the problem. The reason why you give in so easily is because you have low self-confidence in your ability to keep challenging your areas of competence.
The problem with coasting is you're not learning anything new. You're sticking to the narrow range of knowledge that you already have. Sure, you produce results with that narrow range, but it gets smaller and smaller as the world changes.
Soon enough, you would realize that what you know, as well as your capabilities, are simply not up to the job. That is the bitter “reward” of coasting through life. Sadly, low self-confidence pushes you down that slippery slope.
To get good at anything, you have to not only master a certain set of actions, but you have to constantly try to break things. You're trying to mix and match, slice and dice and try to come up with all sorts of combinations so you can step up your game.
I don't care what you do for a living. Maybe you're a lawyer or a doctor, an architect or an engineer, a chemist, janitor, farmer or domestic helper. It doesn't matter. If you want to be at the top of your game, you can't just focus on the things you already know. You can't just focus on the things that you have mastered and have grown comfortable with.
You have to push yourself to the limit. When you have low self-confidence, you think that challenging yourself to go to the next level is a hassle. You have such a low opinion of your ability to discover new things.
You focus on the discomfort and inconvenience involved that you lose sight of what you stand to gain.
It then all seems like it's just not worth it.
If you are suffering from low self-confidence, it's going to be very hard for you to overcome failures and disappointments. I'm telling you right now as you read this, you're already failing. There's already the possibility of disappointment.
The problem is not whether failures and disappointments happen in our lives. Spoiler alert. They happen all the time. The issue is what are you going to do about them?
Are you going to sit back and just brood over how you worked so hard and missed the mark? Are you going to continue to be disappointed with yourself that you felt that you gave your best, but came up short? Or are you going to try again and again until you get the job done?
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