Confidence is king

Daily writing prompt

What could you do more of?

This topic has popped up a couple times over the last two years; but one thing that I know I could stand to do is be more confident

This isn’t to say that I am some kind of awkward, insecure, bumbling, nerd, well at least not all the time. But I’ve noticed with that I will have these flashes of supreme confidence when I’m talking to certain other people.

For instance, I think it’s very human of all of us to be very insecure about how we’re going to be received by other people. When I have these flashes of the supreme confidence, I would say something like “you’re not doing something right if you’re not pissing at least one person off.” I wish I could be that Rob all the time in real life.

I like to think that I’m a fairly confident person. I know I’ve talked before about my bar-hopping days and hell out of my circle of friends, I was the guy who would approach the girl at the bar or on the dance floor. I got to the point where it is no longer afraid of rejection. Not because I was certain I was going to get her, but rather because I knew that, even if I didn’t, the world wasn’t going to end.

I think that more than that, I’m one of those people who tends to tell people to have that level of confidence when I often don’t have that same level myself. I guess for me it’s authentic case of “do as I say, not as I do“ which I think is one of the ultimate forms of hypocrisy.

There’s so much that’s been written and said already about being successful through confidence or being confident and things just falling into place for a person. These are all great inspirational things to remember, but they’re often more difficult to put into practice.

Humility, or self-awareness

Along the same lines, I guess one thing that I wish I had more humility. I don’t mean in the “oh shucks“ kind of humility. I guess I mean more in a level of total self-awareness: “this is who I am. This is what I bring to the table. I’m not perfect, but I am what I am“.

Is there anyway to find any kind of middle ground between these two ideas? Every day really is a work in progress.

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2 responses to “Confidence is king”

MattsMealsBlog

September 23, 2025

I wish I could be more confident too. It takes time, but I’m getting there,

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1. rebuilding rob
  
  September 23, 2025
  
  It’s like catching lightning in a bottle for me. I can sometimes capture it; but most times it eludes me.
  
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