Home »  Beauty »  Beauty in the Mind »  Clueless About Confidence? Most of us spend half our time searching and groping for ways and means to make life better, to steer it in the direction that we want it to go. And we spend the other half grumbling and complaining bitterly when things don't work out our way, blaming fate, destiny, other people and what have we. Most of us also spend time admiring and envying other people's success stories and wishing that ours too would magically turn into one.

The Million Dollar question

• Have we ever wondered what makes some people succeed?
• Have we ever wondered what makes some people stand up for something even though the whole world is against them?

• Have we ever wondered why some people stand out in a crowd?

• Have we ever wondered what makes our heads turn around the minute such a person walks into a room?

• Have we ever wondered why some people make winning look so easy?
• Have we ever wondered what goes into the making of a Gandhi, a Lincoln, a Mother Teresa, a Helen Keller or even a next door neighbour who crusades against plastic bags, or a colleague at work who stands up for the rights of employees?

The Million Dollar answer

• Is it courage? Is it hard work? Is it attitude? Is it conviction? Is it money? Is it background? Is it inborn?
• Is it a case of some have it and some don't? Is it that some are born to be leaders and some followers? Is it a sense of right time, right place? Is it destiny?
• Is it all or none of the above?
• All these questions leap to the mind when we find some people's lives flowing smoothly in the direction that they steer. Whereas some of us are just jerked along or pulled in various directions or just plain stuck in the journey of life.
• The answer is not as momentous or as earth shattering as we think it to be. It is not 'blowing in the wind' or 'written in the stars'.
• The basic, simple reason as to why some people 'have it' as they say, is because they are confident. Yes, self-confident. They can live life on their terms because they have confidence in their abilities, in their beliefs, in their self-worth, in their knowledge.

Above all, they have the self-confidence to know that their wings will help them fly and not fall. So they are never grounded.