COMPETENCY OR COMPETITION

 

 

“If you think you can do it, that’s Confidence, If you do it, that’s Competence.”

 

Every seed has in it the potential to become a forest. It only needs to be nurtured.  Even the most potent seed will not germinate if it is thrown on an infertile soil. Even an ordinary seed will sprout if it is sown in a prepared soil. Children are born with great talent. We must help them to discover their potential. Encouraging them will alone help them to blossom to their fullest potential.

 

“There’s no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it’s their time.”

 

Are we criticizing them for everything, or comparing them with others and making them feel less? Comparisons bring out the worst in them and not their best. Children will never appreciate anyone comparing them. We are simply fanning the flames of hatred and jealousy in them. We are unnecessarily creating an unhealthy competition among children.  Instead we need to work on building their competency.

 

I must confess that I had neither confidence nor competence in me during my childhood. In fact, I suffered from inferiority complex. I had low self-esteem and a poor self-image. This was because I was constantly compared to my cousins and friends for my looks and for my academic performance. It affected me a lot. By default, I started working on my competence by participating in competitions. and by putting my hand up for all cultural programs. I managed to create a niche for myself in school. People started noticing me. I started growing in my own eyes and thereby in the eyes of the world.

 

“The most beautiful thing you can wear is Confidence.”

 

Ever since, I have only grown more and more in my confidence. Today, nobody will even believe that this was my past. I have got past my past. I gifted myself a new ME by achieving small victories. Beauty also, I realized, was only skin deep. It is a fading phenomenon. You need to be beautiful within. That is what I keep working on every day. To become a beautiful human being, whose heart beats for the world.

 

The world sometimes does not spare anyone. Rising above the comments of the world will truly liberate you. Don’t get even with the world. Get ahead of the world. All you need to do is to consistently build your competence, which in turn will give you confidence.

1.     Do not compare yourself with anyone

2.     Compete with your own past

3.     Ensure that your today is better than your yesterday.

4.     Keep building your competence

5.     Make yourself the Numero Uno

 

Identify the areas where you need to improve. Set short term goals for yourself. Keep achieving your targets. This is the reward you give yourself. Then nobody will be a competition for you. The world will come in search of you.

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