Accomplishments – Dawn Lupul

Sometimes you come to the end of the path – which way from here? Another Puerto Rican moment

Sometimes we lose. We do everything we think we can, put all of our effort into something, but ultimately it doesn’t work out as we wanted it to. We end up losing instead of winning.

Losing sucks. To have an expectation of a result and then not achieving it is frustrating, humbling, and can be paralyzing. Sometimes it is enough to make us give up completely. Instead of making adjustments and trying again, we might just want to abandon whatever we were trying to do.

That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because maybe we weren’t clear enough about what we were trying to do in the first place. But giving up on a dream because the going gets a little bit tough is a shame.

What if a little bit of refining is all you need to do? What if the next time you tried, you succeeded? You will never know what might have been if you give up.

You need to be confident when you wear a hat like this! – Photo credit MrWillWong.com

Having confidence in yourself can mean the difference between accomplishing everything you want or never getting your dreams off the ground.

It can be elusive, easily swayed and is impossible to force upon yourself. But like any other skill, confidence can be learned.

Confidence grows when it is nurtured. It must be encouraged, coaxed along gently until it becomes an unshakeable force. Once you have confidence, you can achieve so much more than if you continue hiding under an umbrella of insecurity.

It is during our formative years that confidence either builds or never gets a chance to take root. Like a seedling just popping out of the ground, if it is squashed early in its development it may never recover, at least not by itself.

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