Does anyone else ever think to themselves ‘is this all there is to life’?
This is Nihilistic thought, and a dangerous one at that. It is a product of a bad mood or having a negative edge to your personality.
Thankfully, this is not my state of mind most of the time. In fact, I am usually reasonably optimistic.
My own, existentialist, view on life is that you must be grown up to accept that existence, in general, is absurd.
It is your own responsibility to add unique and specific meaning and purpose to your own life.
With this in mind, and taking other factors into consideration, I have decided to embark on a new purpose – improved confidence.
Now, admittedly, this is not something that can be improved upon over night. In fact, it is a lifelong challenge.
But, for now, I am going to take baby steps in improving my confidence, with the view to, hopefully, become better at work, with women, with my friends and with myself.
With an interest in self improvement, and people generally, I have read a lot of psychological, nutritional and general health books on maintaining good moods and generally happiness.
However, there is no substitute for practical application.
Therefore, I am going to attempt to improve my confidence piece by piece until I feel satisfied with the results.
I am logging this on my blog so I can record my progress and socially commit myself to the project.
The first task I have set myself comes from a book I read recently about charisma in conversations.
I am going to set myself a target of talking to four strangers a day for a week, starting on the way home from work tonight.
Hopefully, they won’t all fall flat. Stay tuned to track my progress.
