Hello friends in Ladies of Hive Community, My post today is to contribute to the challenge of writing a topic in the Ladies of hive Community Contest #260. When I read about the writing challenge in the Ladies of Hive community, I felt drawn to writing because I had already been able to address topic number two in my life. I chose topic number two, namely :
2️⃣ Write about a time when you overcame self-doubt.
Based on this topic, there are two basic questions that I will ask myself, namely:
- Have I ever doubted my abilities?
- Have I ever hesitated in making decisions?
The answer is yes, I have doubted my abilities and I have hesitated in making decisions. I feel that, as a normal human being, it's natural to doubt my abilities and hesitate in making decisions. Several factors contribute to my self-doubt and how I dealt with it, including:
1. I don't fully understand my strengths and weaknesses,
Fully understanding our own strengths is the primary weapon for success in life. We will be able to awaken and develop our inner potential. Besides understanding our own strengths, we must also understand our own weaknesses to create balance in our lives. If we only understand our strengths without understanding our weaknesses, we will become arrogant and look down on others.
Once we understand our own weaknesses, we don't need to feel inferior, because every human being has weaknesses. Sometimes we can use our weaknesses as weapons for survival, depending on how we manage them to protect ourselves.
So by understanding our strengths and weaknesses, we will become more self-confident individuals and fully understand our abilities. WE WILL NOT DOUBT OUR OWN ABILITIES.
2. Too many considerations in making decisions
Often in life, we are faced with problems that we must solve immediately, I have been in this position and luckily I was able to make a decision quickly. I think it is normal that when I was young I made the wrong decision, in fact this was a very valuable lesson that I would not have found in formal education.
But I have also been in a difficult position in making decisions, this happened because I considered too much, so the results obtained were not as desired.
3. Not learning from experience
Experience has taught me many things in my life, but when I was very young, I often ignored those experiences and fell into the same problems. As time goes by, I started to learn many things, especially I learned about my life experiences, about what I should and shouldn't do, so that I will always be safe and comfortable throughout my life.
So in life, these three things are what caused me to doubt myself when I was young. And now, at 46, I can always overcome my life's problems without the slightest hesitation. I always convince myself that if I make a wrong decision, I should not regret it, because the word regret will only make me live in the shadow of the mistake. But I try to correct past mistakes so that there are no more regrets that will harm me.
Doubt is a small part of the process of life, so that humans are more careful in making decisions, the most important thing is how we want to correct our own mistakes and stop doubting our abilities.
Thank you for reading my post, I hope my friends can support me. Best Regards @umirais