Believe in Yourself, Don't Accept Defeat

It is appealing to realize the number of pathetic people who are hampered and made miserable by the malady popularly called inferiority complex. But you need not to suffer from this trouble. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes but self confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.

Why don't you belief in yourself? Why do you have much interest in others than your own? Perhaps you had an older brother or a friend who was brilliant student. He got A's in school; you made only C's and you never heard the last of it. So you believed that you could never succeed in life as he could. He got A's and you got C's, so you reasoned that you were consigned to getting C's ally our life.

Apparently you never realized that some of those who failed to get high grades in school have been the greatest successes outside of school. Just because somebody gets an A in college doesn't make him the greatest man in the world, because maybe his A's will stop when he gets his degree and the fellow who got C's in school will go on later to get the real A's in life.

If you are thinking of failure and defeat then probably nothing better will come your way. If you have been long defeated by a difficulty, it is probably because you have told yourself for weeks, months, and even for years that there is nothing you can do about it. You have so emphasized your inability to yourself that your mind gradually accepted the conclusion upon which you have insisted, and when your mind is convinced, you are convinced, for as you think so are you.

The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in GOD and that will give a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself. Whenever failure and defeats comes, instead of sitting back and accepting it say, "No I'm a victor, and not a victim." Tell yourself that I prefer doing something better than nothing. I may have been defeated before but my past is past. This is a new day. I can do something so far as I have light. Keep this lyrics on your heart.