Cheikh Anta Diop was the first to come up with the concept of African-Renaissance in his series of essays collected in his book Towards the African Renaissance: Essays in Culture and Development, 1946-1960. It became popular thanks to the South African ex-president Thabo Mbeki.

African-Renaissance is the campaign to overcome the current challenges that Africans and continent in general, are confronting to achieve the cultural, scientific and economic rebirth.

From here I got an idea of sharing thoughts under African-Renaissance to just influence not only Africans but also people who want to rebirth with minds of winners (Brain metamorphosis).

All you need is getting the thoughts and use them to rethink for yourself.

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We try to hide our inner feelings but what I have realized in this life is that hiding your feelings is hard to impossible. Most of what we feels displays on our faces. And most people will treat us accordingly.

Today I want to share with you these four inner weapons that you have to carry everywhere you go and everyone who sees you will see an important creature, they will see a warrior, a winner.

These weapons are related to each other, and with one of them you keep getting the others even though they play different roles with same vision.

1. OPTIMISM: The first weapon you need to carry with you everywhere you go, is optimism. Optimism is the hopefulness about the future or the success of something. Optimism is just a positive thought that you convert into a belief to make it stronger. You have to carry this weapon so that everyone who sees you will see a person with hope to succeed. With optimism you will always look at the good side of something or a person, you will see opportunities where others see threats.
   You will see a glass half full where others see it half empty.
   But to be optimistic requires COURAGE.

2. COURAGE: It requires courage to do harder things, to do things that can make a difference. Courage is that ability to do things that frighten. With courage you are able to set goals that others are afraid to set, you are able to approach people that others are afraid to approach.
   Courage will reflect on your face and for everyone who look at you will see a courageous woman or man. The courage within you will raise self CONFIDENCE.

3. CONFIDENCE: It's not easy to be confidence of yourself, sometimes you don't even have any reason to be confident but let me give you one reason that I use to give people; in your spiritual body Confidence is the skeleton.

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   Will you live without a skeleton? I don't think so. You need a skeleton to posture and support yourself, you need it to live. Hope you get a big reason to have a confidence for yourself. It is going to require you courage to develop self confidence and once you get it everybody else will have a confidence in you.

4. CHOICES: This is a very important weapon in this life and most people are moving without choices. Most people are on influence of people with confidence and they copy their choices.
   You can observe much of that on steemit, some steemians have no choice because they are working on 0% confidence. No confidence in their SP no confidence in their articles and the only choice is begging votes and applausing everything (bad and good articles.....).
   But let me tell you a good news, by thinking positively and have a courage to develop self confidence, you will start having choices no matter what.
   You will start realizing that in front of you there are a lot of options just because you are confident for yourself that you can live your dreams.
   You can do whatever you want to your life, you can make the best choices.

Tips to develop self confidence:

• Think positively: Once you start thinking positively you will start seeing possibilities in every situation and gain that feeling of "I can".

• Love yourself: You have to know that you're precious and unique deserving the best; best clothes&shoes, best and caring friends, etc...
  By loving yourself, you will start getting compliments from people that will boost your confidence.

• Start on easy tasks: When it becomes on performing tasks, start on easy ones that will give you a better experience and confidence to perform harder ones.

• Share your good moments with the public: When you're out with freinds choose among your pictures the best ones and share them on social media, you can even edit to make them more beautiful. Yeah people will tell you that you have to be yourself, but sometimes YOURSELF attracts negatives and criticism that discourages you.
  Share your achievements.

• Kick out negatives and bad relationships: Some people don't worth your presence, they don't value you. Others will only talk about negative things. Your date is always acting as if you're the one who needs him or her the most. My freind you're in a toxic relationship, surrounded by toxic people and thoughts and all they will do to your life is devaluing you and that will lead you to lack of confidence.

• Be a selling product: A selling product I mean that product in the shop that everyone is looking at. Make yourself attractive to people but not cheap for everyone.

Conclusion

To conclude, among the 4 weapons confidence is very important and to raise it you need to think POSITIVELY, have the COURAGE to develop that CONFIDENC you need and you will start to live a life of CHOICES.
Doing whatever you want confidently expecting positive results. Wherever you go, move with your 4 weapons and you will start experiencing an influential life.

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Thanks for your time reading!

By Jado

@bmotives

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