Core Confidence

"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. 

Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. "

-Lao Tzu 

Psychologists believe that material things used as bragging rights is a sign of insecurity.(i.e. money, car, house, college degree, clothes etc.) A form of defensive shell to hide the true feelings of a person from the public.

Be sure that when you buy things, it is because you truly want it and you are not just buying it to please other people to feel good.

The saying that when you give an insecure person success, then you have a successful insecure person. A mouse driving an expensive car is still a mouse. While a confident and comfortable person who achieves success is a confident and comfortable successful person.

Money will not change you from within. It will just make you more of what you are right now.

People who draw confidence from external forces don't get ahead much in life. Because, all these insecurities always holds them back especially in dealing with people. 

Ask yourself this question: "Will you still be happy, comfortable and confident if all your possessions or status taken away from you?" If the answer is no and if you are thinking of what other people might say, then you are in trouble.

Absolute core confidence is being comfortable and feeling good with your own skin, irregardless of your economic state. It comes from within and not from external factors. This is what real champions are made of.