Confidence and My Daughter's Bedroom

You may be wondering what confidence has to do with my daughter's bedroom. I have been reading a book called The Confidence Code by Katty Kay and Claire Shipman. They share that confidence is partly nature and partly nurture. They also share that if you are not born with a confident nature and you were not nurtured by confident parents who supported you, it’s OK! You can learn to be more confident by taking action. Action leads to mastery and mastery builds confidence.My daughter and I started painting her bedroom last weekend. She has had light aqua walls for about seven years and she is ready for a change with warm gray walls with a teal accent wall.About seven months ago she was inspired to paint sea creatures on her walls. I am not sure what inspired her but she just has to do it. I suggested that maybe painting a canvas would be a good idea but her reply was, “Don’t you think I can do it?” What could I say? I had to let her try. I figured that if she didn’t like it she would have to live with it. My only request was that she keep the paint off of the carpet. That’s reasonable, right?She did keep the paint off of the carpet and she painted a few colorful sea creatures. She was pleased with her work. After a few months she mentioned that her art wasn’t the best and that she was ready for something new. I am glad that I let her paint the sea creatures on the wall. I demonstrated my belief in her and her abilities and while her art was not as awesome as she had hoped it would turn out, she acted on her ideas. She didn’t achieve mastery but she did move forward and it worked out just fine. The next time she is inspired to try something new she will do so and if it doesn’t turn out there is no harm, no foul. If it does work out, then success has been achieved and her confidence will grow.It’s wonderful and sometimes a little scary to try new things. I do it with my business and sometimes things pan out and sometimes they don’t. I keep moving forward. I am going to try some new things in my daughter’s room and I will share them with you later.