Did you know that the clothes we wear can have a subtle effect on your anxiety and confidence levels?
Certain types of clothing can significantly decrease our levels of anxiety, while other types of clothing can increase your anxiety as well as negatively impact your self-confidence. I’m personally a believer in the notion that wearing fashionable but, at the same time comfortable clothes can make us more charismatic and likable, and in turn, more confident.
I have always believed that our appearance always makes an impact on both us as well as others. Once I graduated and was placed in one of the reputed firms, the first thing that struck me was will I be able to impress them. I was always bothered about how people perceive me and eventually felt that to get this insecurity out of my mind I need to build self-confidence by wearing clothes that would make me feel good as well as create an impression.
That is when my dad introduced me to two best formal apparel brands “Allen Solly” & “Van Heusen”, the staff understood my needs more than I did and wasted no time to put forward the best offerings. They gave me few insights as to how to select clothes, how to pair colors and how to highlight the best features in you. This one visit made them my favorite apparel brand for formals. When the 1st day to office arrived, I was already happy to start the day. The boost of confidence was immense when I saw myself in the mirror and set out to make the best impression and more than the impact I wanted to create on others I was very happy from inside which made it easy to create an impact
To put it in a nutshell, wearing clothes that make us feel good about ourselves and helps gain a certain level of self-confidence. It’s true that low self-confidence is not completely attributed to fashion solely, but research has proven that the way we dress can majorly reduce your stress hormones.
Achieving things always comes after we go through a fair part of pain. It need not be applicable for everyone and for every situation but, the satisfaction we feel when we achieve something after a long haul is amazing. There are always people who go through the same journey quite easily than us but that doesn’t mean that our journey is not worth mentioning about.
MBA is one of the most important step in shaping a person’s future and the B-school is the platform that would give us the flight. This made me fix on one thing, no matter what I will complete my MBA only when I get admitted into one of the best B-schools in India. So, started my journey towards cracking the entrance exam CAT.
When I first wrote CAT, back in 2016, I couldn’t spare time towards it and took the whole exam not as seriously as I should have. I ended up scoring 65 percentile. It made me furious on my own self and made me feel disgusted. I resigned my job and thought that if I could get 65 percentile without preparing, I could achieve a good score by just preparing for it the next time.
I signed up for the coaching classes and religiously went to the classes but, in the 2017 attempt I scored 75 percentile. I totally lost hope, I was frustrated, depressed and started questioning my own capabilities. My dad consoled me and told me that maybe that is your capability and so not to cry upon it but, rather accept it and take admission into a B-school with a 75 percentile cut off.
This broke my heart, though he never meant it in a negative sense, it sounded as if he no more believed I could make it to the top colleges. That very moment I made a deal with him that I would attempt CAT one last time and if I don’t make it, I will listen to his advice and get into the best available college. After few discussions on the pros and cons of waiting another year, he finally gave a nod to the deal.
I analysed what mistakes I did in the last two attempts and worked upon my weak areas. I made sure that by the end of every week there was an improvement. I started attempting as many mock tests as possible. I could see an improvement in score after few exams and this built my confidence. I was able to solve more quant questions than ever, this made me feel confident.
The results of CAT 2018 were out and I was praying every god I knew to not let me down. I gave my credentials to my dad and told him to view them. I was constantly checking his expression to make out whether my result was positive or negative and the moment I saw a huge smile on his face, I knew I proved myself. The percentile can be anything but the smile on his face was million times more than it. I scored 93 percentile and was very happy about it.
This incident made me realize that there is nothing that is not achievable, we just need to trust ourselves and believe that we can make it happen.
