“Confidence is the cornerstone of success in all domains of life, and developing it is much like nurturing a garden. It takes attention, gentle care, and vigilance. Poor self-confidence is like a garden that has been overgrown with weeds. The gardener must search through all the foliage to find and nurture the flowers. Self-confidence can be nurtured by many gardeners, including coaches, family, and mentors. But it is most important that you understand how to nurture and develop your own self-confidence.
When you grow confident, you are essentially learning specific concrete knowledge that bonds your intention with your ability, thus forming a trust. It is this trust or confidence that forms a crucial bridge to being Zone-like—in your attitude, your approach, and your ability to realize your goals and turn your desire into will.”— Dr Michael Lardon from Finding Your Zone
I really enjoyed reading this piece. To have confidence means to trust your own ability. This does not come naturally and needs work on our part—almost like tending a garden. We need to carefully tend it and ensure no weeds have sprung up. Weeds, in this case, would mean limiting beliefs that we might pick up as a result of setbacks and failures. It’s important that we constantly pick ourselves up and be our own cheerleaders.
This week we bring you the very recent state of the nation speech by John Key and the key focus areas. We will make the full text of the speech available online for those who are keen to read it. The Prime Minister has stated in no uncertain terms that the government is looking to develop Auckland into a business and commercial hub. It will be exciting to see the developments over the next four years.
On the other hand, India's might and power were on display at the Republic day parade like each year. We bring you a story on that with some pictures. We also hope readers watched the live telecast of the parade via the live feed we made available on our Facebook page.
On popular demand, we are happy to introduce our astrology column this week. We will endeavour to bring you weekly forecasts every week. You will note that this is exclusive content being produced specially for Indian Weekender and coincides with the day of our release (Friday to Friday). Needless to say that the forecasts are an indication by the astrologer on what the stars say and should be used only as a guide.
Akshay Kumar starrer Airlift is performing well across the world. It is an inspiring film that tells the story of the real-life hero behind the biggest evacuation in history. Read our story on this along with interviews of the leading stars. The full text of the interviews will be made available online.
We hope you will enjoy reading our current issue as much as we have enjoyed putting it together for you.
Until next time.
Giri Gupta