I think sometimes we get it twisted! We think that if we’re humble, then we’re not confident and if we are confident, then all our humility is lost. However C.S. Lewis, the famous writer, fixes this train of thought with his definition of humility: “true humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” Prior to reading this definition of humility, I had a hard time understanding the balance between, being confident while simultaneously being humble. This was because my idea of humility was a little warped. I thought humility was about downplaying your talents, and with this idea I would “humbly”, tell myself that I wasn’t that great whenever I would get positive feedback on things that I did. In the name of “humility”, …show more content…
Thinking less about myself, only added to insecurity and uncertainty. Slowly but surely, I doubted my abilities to do anything and I stopped performing at the level that I knew I could. I mean, if you constantly tell yourself that you’re not that great, you will eventually lose all motivation to even try to be great. And that’s exactly what I was doing. Furthermore, constantly putting myself down, only left me relentlessly thinking about myself. With insecurity, comes anxiety, and when you’re forever anxious, it can be quite difficult to think of anything but the anxiety you’re dealing with. Thus revealing that I was neither confident nor was I humble. Last week I wrote about confidence being a choice that we make, knowing that we have everything in us to achieve greatness, regardless of our current level. In choosing confidence, we choose to stop downplaying ourselves; stop playing small. We stand in the truth of who we are currently and the truth about our infinite potential. We realize that it takes confidence to achieve our goals and this week I’d like to add that humility plays a big part in our confidence as we achieve them. This means that we now use our greatness, not just for our own personal gain, but our greatness should also be for the personal gain of those around us; it should help someone