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Avoiding Criticism Is Costing You Confidence
5 Ways To Sharpen Your Self-Belief When Faced With Pushback

Trying to avoid criticism is the quickest way to lose your self-confidence.
Learning to change the way you take pushback, changes all your actions that follow.
“There is only one way to avoid criticism:
Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
In reality, you can’t avoid criticism. You can only tune out the voices around you that don’t add value to who you are currently becoming and what you are building.
If you always keep the tune of criticism, you will do absolutely nothing.
You won’t get out of bed ready to do something great.
You won’t show up when you have to be seen by people that don’t see eye to eye with your vision.
You won’t build anything worthwhile because too many opinions that don’t add value will put a halt to any chance to succeed.
Is that really the life you want to keep waking up to? Or do you want to wake up to one where criticism drives your being to go harder and rebel against what people have seen before?
Criticism is a sign you are on the right path.
In order to do anything great, you have to reject something else. Most of the time, it is the opinions and ideas of people who don’t see what you see.
Have you ever seen a great leader or company without people that hate them? The only correct answer will ever be “NO.”
Have you ever seen an idea or plan presented that doesn’t have pushback? Also, no.
That’s because confidently building great things in the world takes connecting a vision that only certain people can see.
You need criticism to prove any point under the sun.
5 Ways Criticism Is A Great Sharpener For Your Confidence
Gives you a reason to take action.
Allows you to see other perspectives.
Increases your humility to make changes as you go.
Connects you with more like-minded people.
Creates an opportunity for you to stand out.
Action: Use Criticism To Your Advantage
Start using pushback to increase your confidence that you have something great that the world needs.
Hold a greater belief in what you are doing than the weight of opinion watching you do it.