Peachy Self-confidence

Self-confidence is a tricky beast.  Tricksy Hobbitses.  Tricky to rock around.  It’s tricky to know where the fine line is between knowing you’re on to something good and listening to the voices around you – be it in the arena of something personal, professional, writing, social, parental, etc.

That innate sense of creativity and determination, guided by gut and inner voice, isn’t inherently one that needs to be silenced.  I’d hazard to say that most great works of art (in any form) or inventions wouldn’t exist if their creators listened to the negative noise.  But isn’t that where things get tricky? 

How do you know what’s negative noise and what’s actually constructive?  How do you know you’re on to something great and other people can’t see your vision?  How do you know you’ve really got a bomb of an idea that’s going nowhere?  What do you do when you get a bad critique?  Or no one is interested in buying what your selling?  Or when you can’t get people to give you the time of day?

I don’t think I probably have a lot of the answers here.  Maybe just too many questions.  I do know this though: We are all uniquely, wonderfully and fearfully made – peaches or otherwise – and there is worth and confidence in that fact alone. 

You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be someone who hates peaches.

-          Dita Von Teese

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