By Larissa D’Souza –
The strongest factor for success is self esteem. Believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, and believing you will get it. To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one will. Confidence and belief in God and yourself will bring many achievements in life. There will be no opening for failure. A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on its own wings. Always believe in yourself.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once is believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. A man can be great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, determination, dedication, competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Don’t limit yourself to the skies when there is a whole galaxy out there. Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear. Follow your heart, never surrender your dreams. Believe in yourself and let God do the rest. Love yourself, respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what other people think. You can accomplish absolutely anything, if you set your mind on it.
If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high and so are the rewards. If you see the moon, you can find God’s beauty. If you see the sun, you can see God’s power. If you see the mirror, you can see the best creation of God. So believe in yourself.
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches. I believe that God has put gifts of talent and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation. Believe in possibilities, miracles, magic, and prayer and believe in God who believes in you.
I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace, joy or satisfaction. When you really believe, when you’re in peace, you’re showing God by your actions that you trust him. God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He is working on you too, so believe in Him.
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. In the same way, believing in God does not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically. It is God who has put you here, and you may ask yourself why. You may think you are not strong enough to overcome the task at hand. But, God believes in you. He knows you will conquer whatever it is you may be up against or else He would not have given you the struggle you are facing. And if God can believe in you that you can too.
Larissa D’souza is currently studying at Davar’s, but has been a working professional as a Project Coordinator in Sports; and in Travel, Tourism and Banking. Reading books, watching football, listening to music and writing in her spare time are things that Larissa loves to do. She has never missed saying her Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet every day.