Have Faith in yourself

Do you have the courage or strength to maintain a smile when you go through with difficult situations? If you have faith in yourself, then it would not be difficult for you to go through with all the difficulties. Actually, as human beings we are subjected to challenges and hard times. When things are extremely difficult, faith keeps us going. It gives us strength in time of weakness in times of our lives. Having faith can be defined as your constant belief of yourself. You believe that you can achieve success whatever it takes by continuing to do so. You should have to maintain an unbreakable belief in yourself. It is essential for a successful living. 

You should have to maintain a reasonable confidence in your own powers. Otherwise, you cannot be successful. You are the only person who is responsible for the quality of your life. Your faith will not remove your pains; instead, your faith will help you to go through with the pain. If you know how to guard yourself, then no one can create worries in your mind. The following injunctions may help you to face your troubles with courage and understanding because only we can guard ourselves from external predicaments. 

If you keep your head, while all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when others doubt you,

But make allowances for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, 

Or being lied about and not deal in lies,

Or being hated and not give way to hating, 

Nor yet look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream and not make dreams your Master,

If you can think and not make thought your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it in one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose and tart again at the beginning, 

And  not breathe a word about your loss;

If you can bear to hear the truth, you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, 

Or see the things you give your life to, broken

And stop to build them up again with worn-out tools;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinews

To serve their turn long after they are done,

 And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the will which says to them, “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings and not lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you

And all men count with you, but none too much;

‘If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it

And what is more, you’ll be a man, My Son!’

-Anonymous-

Bibliography

Dhammananda, K. S. (1989). How to Live Without Fear and Worry. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Buddhist Missionary Society.

Newman, b. (1992). The Power of a Successful Life. BNC Publications.