Finding Confidence Within Myself

Hello Everyone! This is my first Motivational Monday post, so hopefully you guys will enjoy it. My hope is that I will be able to make a post the first Monday of each month. These posts will be inspiring, insightful, or motivational thoughts from my perspective. Usually when I write about stuff like this, I tend to overthink everything, and I end up deleting it. Which goes right along the lines of today’s post!

Finding confidence within myself is all about doing the things that make me happy, and walking away from other’s who tell me that I need to change for their benefit. I don’t need to do anything. All I need to worry about is being happy.

“Not caring does not mean being indifferent. It means being comfortable with being different.” – Mark Manson

This is one of my favorite quotes, because not caring about what others think of me shouldn’t be associated with not caring about myself or anything at all. I should definitely care about myself and be able to love and accept myself for who I am. This quote means that I can still be passionate about my beliefs, the actions I take, and my perspective on life. I can also feel happy for others when they are different than I am. It’s okay to be friends and support others who are different than me. If everyone was the same, our world would never progress. Everyone would want the same job, and we would all think the same.

Now others might not have the same mindset that I do. There are some people that just don’t like me at all. They don’t like me because I am different than they are. Of course I am guilty of getting sad or offended when I find out that someone doesn’t like me, but that’s because everyone wants to be liked right? This is basic human nature. My first reaction is “How can I make this person like me? What can I change about myself to make them like me?” I am guilty of thinking this way at times, but when I remind myself that everyone is different for a reason, I can take a deep breath and start furthering my connections with others instead.

Now being comfortable with being different doesn’t mean that I can’t change. Change is amazing! I change every single day! Change is growth and change makes me happy! As long as I am the one who wants to change for my own benefit, and my heart truly desires it, then change is good. If I am unhappy with a change I have made, it’s usually because I am doing it to please someone else.

So I’m going to go about my day today feeling more confident than ever. I’m not going to delete this post, because I am confident in my thoughts, and I am okay to admit that someone will probably read this and have a negative mindset about it. The bottom line is that it feels great to embrace being different. Xoxo Michelle

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others

because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others approval

because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her” – Lao Tzu