Exercises for building Confidence

#Gratitude, #Journaling, recognizing your success. All necessary things

Sruti Shivakumar's avatarThought Waves

After reading and learning more about self-confidence, I was keen to know what is that I can do on daily basis to build confidence.

No matter how much we read about something or understand a concept, to apply it in our daily lives, we need to make a conscious effort. This can be done by adopting a few daily rituals which over some time, become habits. In my opinion, these habits help one in building self-confidence.

  1. Maintain a gratitude diary- Gratitude diary helps one in recognizing and appreciating the little things in life. It makes one realize that life is not all that bad and teaches us to find happiness in our connections, achievements, and daily experiences. When we start appreciating our life, we become more accepting of ourselves which eventually builds self-confidence.
  2. Write down every small success on daily basis- Sometimes having an eye on top of the ladder…

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Poetry Published in the “Fallow Ground” Issue of the Inwood Indiana

I have a poem or two in here as well. I love Inwood Indiana Press

My poem “Farm Boys Fight” can be found here:
I tried to capture the wonder and joy of growing up on a small family farm.

Megha's World's avatarMegha's World

Inwood

I’m stoked to be in the next issue of the Inwood Indiana. My Poem “Dance of the death” and “Town Bell” has been selected for publication in the forthcoming issue ” Fallow Ground” by Inwood Indiana Press. Inwood Indiana is one of the sister presses of the Prolific Press.

Inwood Indiana, the smallest press in the world, is proud to introduce Fallow Ground, bursting with small-town stories, world-class poetry, tales of horror and woe, and all things peculiar.

Featuring fine poems and stories by Edward Ahern, Tyler Ayers, Jonathan Bracker, Thomas Cannon, Len Carber, Erin Dewimille, John Dorroh, Milton Ehrlich, Helen Flanders, Arvilla Fee, Francis Flavin, Keith Gaboury, Annette Gagliardi, Susan Gentry, Dennis Gilliam, Gene Goldfarb, John Grey, Cordelia Hanemann, Tiffany Harmon, William Hunt, Chip Jett, Rebecca Kane, Margaret Karmazin, C.L. Killgore, Abigail Kipp, Wendy Lee Klenetsky, Josef Krebs, Bruce Levine, Rebecca Linam, Trisha McKee, John F…

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Why we have Apes

There is always that silly statement, If humans came from apes, then why do we have apes.  The answer is a common ancestor.A video recently showed a grandma primate tickling her grandson and making him laugh. That leads me to a response question to the above silly question. If man was made in the likeness … Continue reading Why we have Apes