Of having "class," Ann Landers said, "Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."

People with class are dynamic.   They are energy givers.  They infuse excitement and enthusiasm into the task at hand.  They treat every job, and every nuance of that job, with an air of importance.  They put their heart into achieving their goal, never hesitating to go the second mile...and the third...and the fourth, if that is necessary.   These habits give them the confidence to continually strive for the summit, and the determination to ultimately acquire the Golden Fleece.

"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live," said Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Those who develop self-confidence are not discouraged by failure.  They develop the ability to see beyond the failure to the lessons and benefits of the failure, to see the failure as the seed from which success will grow.

Norman Vincent Peale wrote, "People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

Make a list of the people you admire - of those who are a "class act."  People like Margaret Thatcher, Albert Schweitzer, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Oprah Winfrey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William H. Gates, Benjamin Franklin, Marcel Proust...the list could take up reams of paper!  The same golden thread weaves through all of them.

Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, studied and analyzed successful people for twenty years in order to develop the Science of Personal Achievement.  The belief system within these achievers is remarkably similar: Belief in self, action in the direction of their goals, determination to endure the failures in order to reap the harvest of success…undeniably simple and similar. 

Have confidence in yourself and your ability to complete the job.  You will be able to achieve this by making an absolute commitment to do so.  Stewart E. White writes, "Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you."  Remember that everyone started at the same zero on the graph.  No one begins with knowledge and experience.  If they can do it, you can do it too.