Speaking contest-confidence英语演讲-信心.doc

To be confident, to be successfulGood evening, ladies and gentlemen, Im wuchongyang from SPD bank Tianjin branch. The topic of my speech today is “to be confident, to be successful”. On the way that were striving to realize our dreams, we may face various obstacles and problems. Especially when we are frustrated by the upset results in our work or in our life, we may be doubted about ourselves. When I just occupied the job as a bank staff, I was anxious about the future almost every day, for that I always made mistakes that seem unreasonable. At that time, I felt self-abased and coward and was so easy to shrink when facing difficulties and challenges, because Im afraid that I would fail. That was really a dark time as a rookie in my carrier. However, with time passing by, I gradually realize that fear could not heal any wound, while on the contrary, to strive for the winning with every effort could teach me a lot during the whole progress. And I also found that, to those who are much closer to success, they always have the faith to overcome the temporary difficulties and challenges. After that I began to learn to be confident and to have a better performance. On receiving an innovating task, I would accept it willingly, instead of pushing it off. I told myself “I can make it and just do it”, instead of “No, no, its far beyond my ability”, because I need the faith to do it well. The change of mind makes me improve quickly. And that confidence makes me live more vigorously and successfully，and helps me to get through the miserable time. So that we know, confidence is vital to our life, with which we can not only overwhelm the setbacks, but also achieve something seems impossible. While how exactly can we be confident? From my perspective, confidence means a kind of positive attitude, which could be cultivated during daily life. The main reason for that we are not confident is that we “devalue” ourselves easily. And we fear being failed and care too much about others evaluation. After recognizing that, the first thing I do is to believe that I could be a better person despite of my current awkward performance. Life is a long journey and every improvement could be witnessed. The whole process weighs much more important than every single spot. So the confidence should lie on the process of growing and learning. Then I just try to ignore others comments and try every effort to do my job well and learn new skills constantly. I would also make mistakes even tough, I would not be disheartened for I believe that I would be better finally one day. Besides, I have tried a shortcut that I will advise you too. That is, to pretend to be successful. For instance, when we meet someone we really admire, we should imitate them and push ourselves to behave like them. We could learn their behavior, their speaking methods, and even their opinions. After several imitations, our confidence will be shown from our facial expressions, voice and gestures. That will help us being in a positive circle, in which more confidence would be accumulated and of course success would be closer.That kind of confidence, I call it “external confidence”. Besides that I believe confidence should be constructed further into “internal confidence”. Just like a beautiful seed need fertile soil to grow up, a solid internal foundation will enhance confidence to improve. I believe that the abundant knowledge and experience could create a strong mind, which could also bring confidence naturally. Therefore the best way to gain real confidence is only to learn and work harder. The external confidence could lead you to seek for the internal confidence, or the natural confidence. They are connected. With the strong f