Self confidence, a long term dedication

Self confidence, it's a very commonly used term in a lot of conversation. I used this term a number of times without realizing the importance of it, the importance lies not in the usage but in the depth of meaning. So it usually stands for having faith in your abilities or your efforts, so how hard would it be to have faith in yourself. For starters, it's not easy and it doesn't happen overnight, if you suffer from self confidence issues you need to commit yourself, think of this journey as a long term commitment into a relationship, it's not like having a one night stand this commitment is more like a marriage, a marriage with yourself.
People who have low self confidence often have their unique personalities overshadowed by the thoughts of those surrounding them, once you start on this journey you will find your opinions, thoughts and preferences changing once they start to unravel the cover surrounding their personalities. Not so long ago I started on this journey myself, the first thing I found hard to get through was this "what if I become the odd one out" "what if I have no friends anymore" "what if I'm labelled as a weirdo", these question come up into the thinking zone whenever you want to make a change from the regular habits, I remembered what a professor once told me "You need not to be worried about your thought process matching with everyone, those who are worthy will come on their own, and, those with an out of the box thinking process; find only a counted few who are compatible"
And so right were his words, slowly over time I came to the understanding that everyone is an odd one out when they leave a certain set of people, everyone is a weirdo to someone and friends come and go.
For self confidence, take a deep breath and experiment with little things, you're scared of giving a wrong answer in class, well try it the next time your professor asks you a question, you're worried what people think about you, well you go ahead and strike a conversation.
Make a list of the things which make you feel as if you're not good enough when you're doing your best, giving a speech, acting, singing, giving a presentation, holding a logical argument and so on and so forth, make a list and then rate which one is the easiest to tackle, once you've done that then you start with the simplest, like you're scared of giving a speech in front of an audience, stand in front of mirror and practice; in the start you may not be able to keep the eye contact with yourself and you might keep forgetting but keep practicing and you'll be confident, once there get a small crowd of your family and close friends and repeat the process, soon you'll be confident and then you start with the real deal of giving that speech. This will take time, weeks, months or maybe a year depending upon your commitment and dedication.
Practice and you'll be perfect.

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