The Importance of Believing in Yourself

byDanni4

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8 years ago

I'm fairly new here but I wanted to stress the importance of believing in yourself to other newbies and anyone else who's listening.

I'm a natural entrepreneur and have attempted many new projects both off-line and on-line. I have aborted the majority of them. Recently I had a good hard look at why I did that.

What I discovered was that I wasn't aborting projects because they were failures but because I believed I was a failure. So I had a good hard look at that.

What I discovered was that I'm surrounded by people who don't believe in me therefore I don't believe in myself.

I have a very small circle of friends and family and I realised that they were not very supportive. The other problem is that I am bipolar. However, I don't see being bipolar as a problem - they do. Being bipolar doesn't mean that half my brain is missing which is how I often get treated. The problem is that I too often listened to the negative feedback and as a result I often abandoned projects that may or may not have become successful.

There are many famous and successful people with bipolar - Carrie Fisher, Mel Gibson, Russel Brand, Jimi Hendrix, Ernest Hemmingway, Frank Sinatra & Jean-Claude Van Damme just to name a few.

All the positive thinking experts tell you to dump the negative people in your life. I didn't want to dump my family. So I decided not to share with them any projects I embark on and surround myself with people that encourage me.

The result? Well I'm not famous and successful - yet. But I do have a lot more confidence in myself and feel more in control of my life.

So the bottom line here is - if you have people in your life that don't believe in what you do find a way to ignore them and do it anyway!