hmatt's blog

Last night I had the first of four improv classes at ComedySportz. We did a lot of exercises that required teamwork and analogies of improv. One such activity was taking turns drawing a face. I don’t remember ever doing that before, but it was a lot of fun!

At the very end of the evening we were encouraged to compliment each other and accept those compliments. It has always been a pet peeve of mine when people downplay compliments.. and I totally did that! I want to give and receive genuine compliments!!

Related to this is confidence. I don’t know what has happened, but I think I lack confidence! I show all the symptoms- hesitating to be in the limelight, waffling on my decisions, second guessing myself.. ENOUGH OF THAT! I hereby declare that I am confident!

Part of the reason I bet I hesitate to declare such a thing is because I’m hyper aware of people with big egos.. but you know what the difference is between those self-centered people and people who are awesome? People who are awesome have confidence to share. I want to be that shining light for people who are down and out! I want to support my friends and family with positivity!!

Confidence has some type of bad connotation and I am now reclaiming it. Confidence means positivity!