Kind Confidence

I just dropped my daughter off at the high school playoff basketball game, and we had such a good conversation as she was being dropped off by herself. She was going to go in and look for friends, and I talked to her about having kind confidence as she walked through the doors she may not know anyone, and she asked me, Well, what’s kind confidence? Kind confidence is walking in with your head up, looking at people, smiling at people, not having your head down in your phone. It’s not looking for the friend that you know the best, but looking for all different types of friends. Kind confidence is being easy on your own and content without a bunch of people around you, content in the middle of a crowd, just smiling and looking at people totally okay with who you are on your own, not having to be with your best buddy. Kind confidence is knowing that no one is worried about you. They are only worried about themselves, and that the only thing you’re paying attention to is making sure that other people feel loved, they feel seen, they feel like you are a friendly face in the middle of a crowd. Kind confidence comes from within. And when you are happy and content with who you are on your own, and you do not need someone else or a group of friends to make you feel like you are worthy or okay or happy, and once you model that, you will see other friends follow that suit. So, always walk into a room into a classroom in any social situation with that kind confidence, and you will change the world!