Confidence

There is nothing like having the right information at your disposal to make decisions. There is nothing like turning around old ways of thinking when you can think critically on a matter and realize that the only thing you got wrong was that your thoughts were outmoded. There is nothing like seeing that whatever it is you can dream is more than just possible. It is a wonderful thing when you come to the realization that you don't have to listen to anyone with their tales of woe and fear as the only way. I spend a great deal of time establishing a sense of confidence in others. Sometimes when I am speaking, I would like to hear myself saying it back to me, so that I can go out into the world feeling as stoked as I know I have just made others feel. I have been a product of my own mis-conceptions about life and about people. I have had to accept my own past ways of seeing and thinking for what they are.Once you stop asking permission and start following your own dreams and yearnings...when you start knowing that there is nothing wrong in taking your own temperature, and going with your hunches and speaking out when you don't feel that that something serves you....the power behind that is amazing! When finally you can say without flinching or fawning that you know what...I want to experience this, this and this. I don't want to experience that. Also, when you can say to yourself, you know what...this is how I want to do this...and some of it may work and you may make a slip up on the way, but you still make a decision and press on...now that is golden. Every step I make where I am making it for my good, is a great step forward.