What is most important: courage, confidence, or determination?

How many times have you wanted to do something new, or take a risk, and instead of stepping up and attempting to do it, you stepped back and wished that you were more confident? Is there something in your life that you really want, but you’re waiting to have the confidence to go for it? Do you believe that once you’re confident, you’ll get started?

Confidence comes as the result of stepping out and taking risks, not waiting for it. When you actually do what you’re aching to do, you’ll become more confident—even if you fail. Confidence comes from doing, and courage bridges the gap between having and lacking it.

It takes courage to reach for a better life, to try something you’re a novice at, to risk embarrassment, and looking less than perfect, or failing. And courage is a choice. When you’re facing a chasm, and your dream on the other side of it, courage will help you figure out how to get there.

What happens when you give your best and it explodes in your face? Add a dose of determination into your courageous mix. Determination is the hardening of inner-will—the corralling of mind, body, and soul into a single effort.

Together, courage and determination produce results, and those results create the kind of confidence that no one can take from you.

~ Cynthia