Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.
Courage is the starting point of everything good. To love another is to automatically feed the fire of courage. We cannot be humiliated when we are fighting for someone or something we love. We will not give up when we are fighting for loved ones. As we evolve, our loved ones extend out from our family to include all of humanity. Courage and confidence will grow over the years with practice and self-awareness. We are never alone. God will help us. Such is the courage which gains respect from others. More importantly, we gain respect for ourselves.
Know what you want and reach out eagerly for it.
Itβs unfortunate that inflated self-worth is being mistaken for confidence when itβs really an indication of the opposite. True confidence is reflected through humility, vulnerability and kindness. Itβs quiet. Itβs subtle. It does not overwhelm. It does not shrink others down to elevate oneself and it doesnβt not knock others down to give the illusion of being above.