Sherri Legall Daly

Finding the Confident Me

In case you wondered, the pussycat is me. I have been for most of my life crippled with insecurity and self-doubt. I have been yearning and desperately longing to find that lion that I know exist within me. What will it take, I wonder to wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and see this magnificently fierce and confident lion? The confident lion that is me. I can hear my mother in my ear, speaking to the accomplished, strong and beautiful daughter she raised or my sisters echoing that sentiment as they try to lift me from yet another pity party that I find myself in. The truth is I never figured how important it was to do the work it required to be confident. I always figured that I would wake up and automatically feel this way. That somehow, all the voices from my loved ones will suddenly stick and I will begin to feel this somewhat illusive feeling of confidence. How funny, that we would believe that everything in our world from the great career, husband, and kids would require hard work but not confidence.