Confident and Courageous

Everyone. Everyone!

It's been too long!! I'm sorry, blogging is hard to keep up with man! Life is busy and crazy and it is very hard to handle it all sometimes! Life has honestly been a true struggle everyday! I can't find my journal and I have so much to write, so I guess I'll just have to write it hear. My heart is so so weak right now.

Confidence! I'm not to confident in myself because I have this goal of how I should be and what people should think of me because I'm not the best at being who I am because people have told me many things in my small span of life that I'm not good enough. I mean they haven't said those exact words but they've said stuff along those lines! Confidence in our generation is so hard because we have so many sources telling us who we should be and how we should act and all this junk instead of encouraging us to be us and ONLY US! I want to be confident in myself and what I'm doing in my life. It has been so hard over the past couple of years to really be truly confident and courageous! It is really hard when you don't have people backing you up in life and you feel like you're doing absolutely everything on your own. I want to do life with someone by my side. I'm learning to do things on my own and trusting that God has equipped me to do what I will do in this life.

Something I believe plays a big part in this is peer pressure. Guys please listen to me when I say peer pressure is one of the worse things. Someone else should never over step or cross the boundaries you've placed for yourself! Be you and only you! I know a lot of friends joke with me and say I'm a GG (goody goody) but I can't help it. That's who I am. I don't like to be in trouble or do things to cause trouble. Haha but that's just me. I don't take risks very often or do adventurous stuff because deep down I'm afraid of what could happen. I'm afraid of something going terribly wrong and there being nothing I can do to change it. Most of the time I wish I was just a little different and took risks more often. Maybe one day I'll change just a little and take more risks but for now I'm going to be me and only me. And so should you! Be you and only you. Be who God created you to be. It actually sucks being a goody goody all the time I wish just sometime I could be bad and do something no one would ever expect. I believe that in order to take more risks in your life you need to be confident in who you are! And that is a very hard thing to do trust me.

Three things I think that could help with confidence in our generation is:

1) don't let people try to change you! And when I mean change I mean don't let them try to tell you to do things you don't want to. Change is a good thing depending on what change you're looking for. If you think you have solid rules for yourself or are living well for now don't let someone try to change that. Have an open mind to change because it can be a very good thing but don't just do things because you feel like it'll make you cool or fit in.

2) know you're identity! Where are you rooted and grounded, who are you rooted and grounded in? For me it is Jesus, I need to be rooted and grounded in him because he is where my joy is found, my strength, me song! Without him I am nothing! Your identity is so important and it ties in with your confidence level so know your identity whatever it make be and stay true to it.

3) know your support system! Know who you have by your side! Hopefully the people in your life walking alongside you are the people you'll be friends with for the rest of your life! Hopefully they are the ones who will push you to grow more, achieve more and strive to be the person you were created to be. The person God created you to be. Having a strong support system is such a vital thing, it can boost your self-esteem and help you heal and grow.

These 3 things are helping me rebuild my confidence, so that I'll be able to take those risks and be adventurous! I want to be confident in what I do and no one should be able to take that away from me.

Being courageous ties in with being confident and I don't think you can be one without the other. I'm working on being courageous because I want to be able to do things that make me scared. I want to be able to do hard things even when I don't see hope or when I don't want to do it. I believe that being courageous in our generation is as hard as being confident because we're to afraid to stand up for what we believe in. I struggle with this everyday because I don't want to cause trouble or hurt feelings. I'd rather just let my guard down so that other people don't get hurt! With being confident in yourself and what you can do and who you are can only bring courage to what you will do! It is a beautiful thing! Confidence is just the beginning to all the wonderful things you can achieve in life!! "Courage is grace under pressure"- Ernest Hemingway said it so well with courage you can graciously be calm in the situation and hold your composure in being able to achieve the the difficulty ahead of you. We all need to have confident in ourselves and others and we need to have courage to do the things we need to. I'll be praying that we all can become confident and have amazing courage to do the hard things this life will throw at us. Life is not easy but by the grace of God we can grow and achieve the things life has in store for us.

Thank you to everyone for reading and encouraging me through this process. I love you all!

Forever&Always