Mike was an analyst for a large PR firm for six years until one day the firm had to let him go. The firm had to downsize and the department he was in was one of the more expendable departments. It was a corporate decision so it was nothing personal or production related, but when your job stability gets taken away you will have personal feelings about it.
Self confidence can be a very fragile thing whether we want to admit it or not. Blows to the ego like this can deflate the confidence balloon leaving a person to mope around the house for weeks. This will not get you back on that horse, so to speak, so it is best to remind yourself that your job skills are just fine. This will keep your confidence intact which is very important for those job interviews you have to take care of. Staying aware of your positive attributes will help keep your self confidence at the forefront of how people see you.
But now we have Mary. She has been seeing the same man for 18 months and, in her mind and in her heart, she truly believes that he feels for her the same as she does for him. She feels very confident in this. Then one day, her man breaks up with her and gives her old “It’s not you it’s me” routine. She did not know that he had just lost his job and was feeling depressed and unworthy. She is crushed and now her self confidence is at an all time low as well. For 3 months she raises the stock prices of ice cream and cat food, until her friends and family have had enough of seeing her like this.
They tell her that even though he said what he did for his own reasons, the fact remains that they are not together so it obviously was meant to be this way. This was enough to shake Mary out her slump and make her feel good about herself again. She regained her self confidence and, in the process, her mental health.
It’s hard to realize the importance of self-confidence until you go without it for a time. These are just two of many Self Confidence Examples that a person can read about and know that they too can get back on that horse and become another of the many Self Confidence Examples.
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