Look at successful people what do they have in common? Every success comes down to confidence. They have confidence in who they are and what they do. Developing your confidence really are the keys to achieving anything you want. So how do we gain the confidence to achieve success and maintain a balance to our lives all at the same time?

Acquiring Confidence is about making choices and it comes down to 4 things:

1.      Understanding your Brilliance.

Understanding your “Brilliance” and what you are passionate about will allow you to apply more of what you enjoy doing into your work and will help build your confidence. I talk more about this in my ebook “Discover your Brilliance.” Knowing what you want and then having a plan to get there will help you fulfill your passion and inevitably lead to your success.

2.      Choosing to be Happy. Savour the simple things.

Happiness is a choice. Learning how to stay happy on the inside while going through a difficult time takes will and determination but it is possible. You may not enjoy the negative situation but if you choose happiness and peace, it will guide you through the process with more skill and ease. Happiness is what you choose to feel not matter what knocks you off course, and gives you the determination to get right back on again.

3.      Gratitude. Being thankful for what life gives you.

Being grateful for every opportunity, every relationship, every friendship will in the end help to increase your happiness and that will spill over and come across in how you feel about yourself. Your confidence will show and people will gravitate towards you. Being grateful shows the universe, spirit, and God, that we really care about the world and are appreciative of our lives. It is a choice to be grateful.

4.      Exercise. Without it we don’t release stress in our body.

Getting proper exercise and eating healthy truly reduces stress on our body. After a good workout we feel good, our body relaxes and we enjoy our day much better than just sitting at a desk. It helps our sleep patterns, and adds to our happiness, and relaxation.

These 4 steps help us to create more balance in our lives which gives us strength to move forward through whatever trials we have going on in our lives. It leads us down the path to happiness and growth. Confidence in believing in yourself and that knowing if you do, others will follow.  

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We walk through life so often with such a weight on our shoulders and many times it is a weight we place on ourselves of fear, shame, feeling like we are alone… when in fact this is not the case. I loved the story today because despite the debilitating disease he is triumphing.

In the realm of dispair there is always hope, caring, love, support you just have to be open to it.

I have a friend who for the second time has fought cancer and I couldn’t be more proud of her! Hearing it was completely gone was very surreal for me having lost a good friend already once. A blessing indeed… What saved her was her outlook on life and a determination to succeed in educating herself to eat and live healthy, and take care of her health on her terms and to always search for answers. I too have faced such a fight in my life for 26 years quietly battling Endometriosis and finally free! Why do I share this after all this time? It was once said that in adversity lies opportunity. I believe that once a person goes through the fires it changes you. For myself, like my friend and similar to Montel, I to this day say that it was the greatest gift as a learning and a wake up of what life is really about. I changed that last day of the old self 10 years ago. It is how we handle that adversity that tells the story, it is in that pain that you can really feel the inspirational support of what it truly feels like to be alive. What a wonderful gift of learning life can be about if we have our eyes wide open and willing to listen.  Mahatma Gandhi once said “The future depends on what we do in the present” So remember to celebrate life NOW and Live a Life on Fire!

Darcelle Runciman is a Business Mentor and Author check out her blog or free articles at www.darcellerunciman.com