Taking Control Of Your Self-Confidence

“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

- Dr. Marc Clark

I love that quote by Dorothy Neddermeyer. It says volumes as to how one feels about how they approach things in life and the power behind their self-confidence.

What is self-confidence? It is a strong internal belief in oneself, an assurance of strength. It’s a feeling of trust in one’s abilities, qualities, and judgments. When a person has such poise, they find that they can not only realize the goals that have been set before them, but they can achieve things far and above anything that they could have ever imagined. In other words, sometimes a person who possess a high level of self confidence, can discover something within themselves that they might not have thought never existed.

Here is an illustration of this power contained in self-confidence.

One of the greatest violinists of all time was named Niccolo Paganini. He was born in 1782 and he enjoyed a wellknown and memorable career before his death in 1840 at the age of 58.

One day as Paganini was about to perform before a crowded opera house, he suddenly discovered that he had walked out on stage with the wrong violin. What he was holding was not his valued instrument but one that belonged to someone else. His cherished violin was made by the master violin maker,