Self confidence is an important tool you need in life. High self confidence can lead to greater success and happiness in life while low confidence and low self esteem have a negative impact on your mental health, relationships with others and can lead to anxiety and depression. Last month, my self confidence has taken a hit and I had a meltdown for couples of days until I realize that I was missing out on life by locking myself in the room and crying all the tears I had. I have then decided to do some researches on how to rebuild self confidence. Here is 5 ways to rebuild my self confidence.

Five ways to rebuild your self confidence

1. Start an internal evaluation

Low confidence and self esteem don’t come naturally at birth, you were not born like that, get that clear. Start first by doing a self evaluation…

What I know for sure is that you will never be ready to enter in your twenties. I mean we know we are going to get there one day, some even have big plans for the day it will come but as for me, I was never ready to enter my twenties. I have come to realize:

1. We won’t be friends forever

I had countless friends, I can even say everyone knew my name or my face. I had a good list of guests whenever I wanted to throw a party. Those were the good old days, since I graduated from high school, my priorities changed and I lost touch with so many people 80% of my old “friends” are no longer my friends. I have only kept contacts with a few who understand who I am becoming and we are helping each other to reach our full potential…

You will be fool to think that you cannot learn from anyone. In life you can learn from anyone, whether they are older or younger than you, better in life or still hustling, poor or rich, everywhere there is an opportunity to learn. I have asked 21 different people to give me their best advice. The 21 advice below came from my Instagram followers, strangers I met in trains, buses, at school, at the grocery store and some are from my friends.

21 best advice I could get from strangers

1. Rose told me: “Always do what makes you happy without caring about others. Just care about God.”

2. Henry said: ” Try to find first what you are not before finding out who you really are.”

3. Praise told me: “Allow yourself to be yourself and don’t try to be someone else.”

4. Liliane said: “Be humble in everything…

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via New Moon Blessings June 2019

Wow. This last month I’ve just seemed to be reading the Outlander series and they’re so long so that’s why I haven’t read much else. I’m wondering if I’ve forgotten about something. I did start reading other books, one I didn’t continue and two got shelved thanks to the Outlander books.

I finished Dragonfly In Amber this month and started the next book Voyager:

I also finally finished this book, review to come:

I finished this book too, great read, review here:

And started Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence this month (free Kindle edition) as part of a classic a month  with the people on readitswapit forum:

Once I’ve finished Outlander I have many more books to read and review from Netgalley and another source. I was meant to be catching up, but instead I added more. I have a list of books I want to read over the…

I know many of you are already thinking that most of my posts in my blogs are my old works, years old quite often. Where are my new works? Have I stopped writing new ones?

Well I am still writing and painting as enthusiastically as before. But these days they are channeled into four other platforms- my annual republished kindle books (https://amazon.com/author/sharmishthabasu) -they devour quite a huge no. of stories and poems every year. Quite a lot!

my bookstore in shoptly (https://shoptly.com/sharmishthabasu) Another section goes to my shoptly bookstore, here I not only publish my monthly Ezines Agnijaat and Agnishatdal I also publish a set of books of poetry and story. They are quite merrily illustrated and are available as pdf files. Yes you can read them perfectly in your cellular phone and of course in computer.

My twin Ezines Agnijaat and Agnishatdal (both English, monthlies) don’t feature much stories…