Are you looking for some advice and tips to enable you to gain confidence and increase your self-esteem? If you have answered yes to this question then this article may well prove to be of benefit to you, well at least I hope it will be.

In the first two decades of my life I had various issues which had a negative impact on my overall levels of confidence. These included a bald patch on my head, the fact that I am quite short for a male, the fact that I had a stuttering problem and the fact that I was over-weight.

I so wanted to become some what happier and to be able to walk around with a smile on my face. Life seemed to be a constant struggle for me where as my friends and family seemingly cruised through life. For example my brother was a very successful french doors salesman and my sister offered what she considered to be the best water underfloor heating and provided high quality latex gloves on a part-time basis.

I used to constantly worry about what other people thought of me and was often paranoid that certain people were talking about me behind my back.

I was jealous of other people and their lives and thought that I was rather unlucky; I had been dealt such a poor hand of cards! I also would often feel rather sorry for myself as you can no doubt tell.

I could not continue living life like this and when aged 22 I decided to fight back against all of those demons that were making my life a misery.

After working very hard for around a year I successfully managed to overcome my stutter and was also able to attain a weight that I was happy with. I was less successful in my attempt to cure the baldness and to gain in height!

I suppose experience and after reading numerous books I have now, finally, realised that I have to basically not care what others think of me; as long as I can like myself, which I now do, then that is all that matters.

I also now realize that I am, without doubt, one of the luckiest people in the world and I now do walk around with a smile on my face.

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