Confidence: It's your secret, and it's your relationship to your now

Confidence, ultimately is about doing. What's your secret? How do you do what you do? Isn't that a favorite question of interviewers?

We want to know how successful people do what they do. We all want to shape our future. Yet all we have is the present. Our connection to the present is the shaping of our future. The famed Los Angeles Rams football coach used the say "The future is now". And how right he was. And the measure of our confidence is something essential that we bring to the present moment.

Confidence is the belief that we have the resources to do something. We have our personal gifts. They are our secret. We have what is necessary to achieve what is most important to us. Confidence is not imaginary. It is a deep seated belief in life itself. It is also personal, and universal . It is best mixed with humility, and hard work and it results in experiences. A low level of confidence produces a low level of experience, and a high level of confidence a higher level of experience. But confidence always produces experience. Steve Prefontaine used to say "someone may beat me, but they will have to bleed to do it" That is a form of confidence that showed a high level of commitment.

We can know confidence by looking at it's opposite. A lack of confidence is evidenced by a fear of acting, not being quite sure, never feeling enough resources are available, even by not doing the work. It is not honoring the space that we should take up, not knowing who we are, not shining forth. Fear and uncertainty are things that keep confidence from manifesting. So a confident person does not allow as much of these hindrances to work.

Over the last few months, even years, a definition of personal confidence has been forming for me. I must manifest who I am, and not think, that I don't matter, for I know I do, I must. This is my responsibility. It is what I intend to do now.

“Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?” (Robert Shaw)
Faith is the substantiating of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
May you have successful running and living- Scott