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Why you Struggle with Supporting Yourself

Why you Struggle with Supporting Yourself

Kenneth Wyche
Jul 06, 2023
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Support starts in the family. A family is the built-in support system of life. That’s where your sense of self starts. If support wasn’t important nature wouldn’t have made it our natural disposition. Support lends itself to your survival in a number of ways. Having the right support can be the difference maker between the kind of opportunities life presents to you. If you have a good support system you can get the manager position without any meaningful qualifications.

Confidence is when you mix self-impression with your beliefs. You’re confident when you believe in what you see in the mirror. The reason you may struggle with having a positive self-impression is because no one ever cultivated that kind of meaning in your life. To support yourself or anything for that matter, there must be something to support; If no one has ever acknowledged meaningful aspects of your humanity (appearance, personality, character, or proclivities), it can be difficult within yourself to know what about you, you should support.

This is why people struggle with supporting themselves. Instead of confidence you have doubts and questions. This looks like instead of saying “I am beautiful, I am smart, and I am determined,” asking, “am I beautiful, smart, or determined?” Those aspects of you may not have been properly nurtured over time, and as a result you have a hard time drawing a definitive conclusion about those things. Support is designed to be self-sufficient. If support needs support, then it’s not inherently support.

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