Learning to Have Confidence

I want to make the focus of this blog about things I learn, especially about confidence. I struggle with confidence, and I want to learn how to have it, to not just occasionally experience it. And I would like to record what I learn as I gain it. One thing that I recently "learned", or came to understand, from a book called "Being Happy" by Andrew Matthews, is that if we were to care for a three-month old baby, at feeding time we'd feed it. We would do this with no strings attached. We wouldn't withhold food until it did something really smart or or witty. You feed the baby because it deserves to be fed, to be loved, given care and to be given fair treatment. The baby deserves this because it is human. We are human, we may not be cute little babies, but we are human, and we deserve to be cared for. You don't have to have some special talent, or be beautiful, or smart to deserve this. If we learn to treat ourselves as we deserve to be treated, and we show people that we will accept nothing less than this, then they will treat us with respect.