Self-assurance is the key to success and bringing a smile even during difficult times. It relates to having confidence in one's abilities, judgment, and power. Self-confident people take risks within their abilities and exert maximum effort to achieve their goals. While self-confidence can vary in different environments and stages of life, individuals can build it by recognizing their inner potential and focusing on situations where they want to feel confident. Confidence grows from the knowledge that one can handle challenges, not from thinking they know everything.

1. Self-assurance: A Key to Success
I feel it’s something that is
always there, something
you’re born with that gets lost
along the way, or stolen by
others. Sometimes you have to
dig deep to find it again. (Amy
Lee Tempest)
Self-assurance is the key to bring smile at your face even in the worst situations of life. It relates
to self-confidence in your personal abilities, judgment and power. Self-confident people have the
qualities that everyone admires. It is one of the tools to improve your abilities, to bring you in
front of people and to let you be contented on what you are. When you are self-confident it
means you commit yourself to success. Because you are contented with yourself, so you don’t
need others approval, because you believe in yourself, you don’t need to convince others,
because when you accept yourself, the whole world will accept you. If you are having a right
amount of self-confidence, neither under confident, nor over-confident then you take risks, you
stretch yourself within your inner potential but not beyond your abilities and finally you exert
maximum effort to do anything you want. Whenever you get struck in difficult situation, you try
your best to bring yourself out of this situation. As Maya Angelou has said “Nothing can dim
the light which shines from within”.

2. The people who are self-confident know how to build it. They have
belief in themselves, in their abilities, in their potentials. Whatever the situation comes into their
life, they run on the appropriate level of emotions. They are reliable and confident in themselves.
They live their life to the fullest and also help others to tackle the situations. They are never
disappointed because they know that they have power to pass through uncomfortable
circumstances. In fact, this improves their skill more to get though any life experience.
An individual's self-confidence can vary in different environments
as well as in different stages of life also. You might have seen that there are persons who have
knowledge but don’t have confidence to speak in front of people. Public speaking is terrible for
them, they avoid networking. They usually are afraid that they might be insulted in front of
others, they are not sure that what they are speaking is true or authentic, they are afraid that
anyone can challenge it, this is all because they have low level of self-assurance. So in this way
social life of these persons become horrible.
An individual can have natural self-confidence or
he can build it by knowing that what hidden potential he has. You get inner strength when you
are determined, when your brain has a clear goal to work towards. Think specifically about your
inner strength, and in which field you are best in. Focus on a particular situation where you want
to feel confident in. Confidence builds itself when you attach yourself with something specific.
Confidence comes, not from knowing you know everything, but from knowing you can handle
what comes up. (Donn King)