gd afternoon,

You might encounter different situations good or bad where you might realize slight weaknesses in your personality. You are no longer adroit at dealing with others like you used to be and fear of the exposure to some situations with some people. Opening up and playing at your best qualities becomes something that you subconsciously forbid yourself to do. You don't feel so comfortable being the center of attention and getting many compliments from others.

So have you asked yourself do I really know my own worth? There is no problem if you were the center of attention and it is okay to expose your talent in public. Don't allow others to devalue your achievements or make you feel inferior because you have your own mark. You don't have to overwhelm yourself with guilt if you succeeded while others failed. It's okay if people sometimes criticize you because they are not in your shoes. In this case, you are so confident about your own value, hear them rather than listening to every word and do not let their words get into you.

Let others compliment you and believe in it so that you can learn a lot about yourself. You will find out that stepping into the limelight doesn't necessarily mean you'll ruin everything. Consider it as an experience where you'll be able to enrich your strengths and develop yourself.

Everyone of us needs to have a sense of importance. if you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, i can tell you who you are. It actually determines your character. Sometimes you'll see a person who tries his best to publish writings, well that's how he feels important and everyone of us has his/her own way of feeling important. You'll wonder at times when you see people cry or maybe lie and i am pretty sure that this is the way how they can get sympathy or attention to feel important. That's why we should always respect people' reaction or behavior on any event or situation because every person has his/her own way. However, it's really not excusable whatsoever to lie on every situation having the excuse of not being able to stop that from happening. To change that habit, you should make label it as "not important".

Besides, you can never get attention or loyalty from people if you start criticizing them, however you should always appreciate and encourage them and that's what great managers do to increase the company's productivity. And that what you can do yourself to make others listen to you and value what you say. "There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my self-esteem". This is what one of the actors of his time has said once. We always try to nourish our children and friends bodies with food but we seldom nourish their self-esteem. Shall we provide them with pizza, no it's just a word of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years and you might be remembered during lifetime. So give honest and sincere appreciation and stop criticizing and condemn or complain.

Gladius,
Have a good day