Polishing Your Shoes and Dressing Smart

Daily writing prompt
What’s the best way to build self-confidence?

By constantly stepping out of your comfort zone, pushing yourself to explore new avenues of exploration and not listening to nay sayers. Pushing your boundaries to learn, re-learn and become more self sufficient by the day and when you are really stuck, or simply need an extra pair of hands asking for help and not being afraiid to take no for an answer. By being bold enough to go up to that good looking woman ( or man) in the supermarket and ask if they are single and would they like to go out with you. By pulling your boots on and not being afraid to shovel shit, when shit comes your way. When you spit on your palms , seize the moment and lift the mighty load. By proving your detractors wrong and doing everything they said you you never would. By being a better man (Or woman) Than you were the previous day.

Rudyard Kipling
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
2 
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
3 
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
4 
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

By taking the advice written here and learning from its time homoured virtue the lessons of self discipline, emoptional maturity stoic resilience and good morals. Teaches us that true suicess comes from maintaing good composure and strength in times of hardship and triumph, all of which should be taken in equal measure. That sheer determination to get a job done, will count as something far greater than gold and riches. Other than that, don’t give a fuck what other people say. Just go out and do it anyway.

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