How to Be Feminine and Dangerously Confident

18 months ago, I remember sitting down and wanting to have a vision for my friendships. And it hit me because I knew that I would be turning 40 soon. And there was something about turning 40 that I said, I need to get very, very serious about what I want in different relationships, especially my friendships. So, I had an entire list, what I like to call my dream friendship list. I wrote down everything, everything that I could think of that I wanted. And for some people, they may say that's too much. But if we can be honest, a lot of us have lists. I know I did before I got married. And I was very clear about what I wanted in a husband. Why not have the same thing as a friendship? And that's what made me realize being feminine and dangerously confident is truly about one thing, standards. It's about what you choose to allow and also what you choose to become. That's the part that I think not too many people focus on because everything that I put on my dream list for a friend, I needed to make sure I also had those things too that I was the type of friend that could also be on someone's dream list. So, when you think about being feminine, it's not about being weak. It's not about being fragile to the point that you feel like you will break if anything happens. is truly about having standards that you set for yourself that you know this is who I want to be and this is who I want to become. Before we go deeper in this I really have to explain this concept of femininity. I have defined femininity for so long as tender power being soft and strong. When you think of having gentle strength that is what femininity is. It does not mean being passive. It does not mean being weak. It does not mean being a doormat. It means being strong enough and also soft enough to walk with your head held up high, know who you are and also who's you are. The reason why being feminine and dangerously confident is so important is because when you are dangerously confident, you are not shaken by anything that tries to shake your identity. When women try to become feminine without being rooted in an identity, it becomes a performance. It becomes walk this way, talk this way, pronounce your words this way. But the moment pressure hits, the moment their identity is rattled because their femininity was never built on identity. It was built on performance. If you truly want to be a woman that can stand when pressure hits, please make sure this is the year that your identity is secure. When I think about femininity, this is how I like to explain it. If you have a pillow, just imagine with me a pillow. A pillow is soft. A pillow is something that provides comfort when it's time to sleep. But if you were to take a pillow right now and punch the pillow, the pillow is strong enough to absorb your punch, but also soft enough to be flexible to the way that you punch it. So when you punch a pillow, it doesn't shatter. Because the very essence of the pillow is to be flexible enough to absorb force, but soft enough to still be what it was intended to be. That is what femininity is. It's saying that no matter what comes my way, I'm strong in who I am, but I'm soft enough to know I will never let it break me. If you truly want to be this woman in 2026, here are a few things that you have to do. Number one, know what you want. It's impossible to be in this year and show up in a way to be feminine and dangerously confident if you don't know if you want to be feminine and if you don't know if you want to be confident. But if you want to be a woman that when you speak you speak with articulation, you speak with confidence, but you also speak with warmth, then decide that's the woman that you want to be. A lot of people don't know this about me, but I was born in Memphis, Tennessee. arguably one of the most sarcastic cities in all of America. And I have always, and I mean always, had a response for everything and everyone. But as I've matured, not just as a woman, but as a godly woman, I wanted to be the woman whose tongue has kindness on it. I wanted to be a woman that is a well of life. I wanted to be a woman that when I speak, I bring life and not a knife. And I decided that no matter what came my way, I wanted to have classy communication. If you want to be feminine and you don't want to appear to be weak, you want to be strong, but you also don't want to be combative. What do you do when you want to have that communication but something in you really wants to clap back? Number one, don't. You are too royal to stoop down to that level. When you are royal, going back to your identity, my identity is that I'm a part of a royal priesthood. I don't see royals engaging in common conversations. If people feel as if they can get you to be in common conversations, that means you have not separated yourself enough to show that you are indeed a royal woman. Royal people are too busy doing royal things to be bothered by opinions and perceptions. So, here's what you do. If you're in a conversation and you feel provoked, you feel as if you must quickly respond. The first thing you do, pause, put your shoulders back, lock the gaze, because not only does it remind that person who you are, it reminds you who you are, too. And when you do that, something happens in that silence that makes people flinch. But something in that silence also makes you realize I will not be a woman to come down from my seat of royalty. After you paused, take a smile and then decide, is this something that deserves my response or is this something that deserves my exit? Let this be the year that you never confuse those two. Next, after you've decided what you want, you must decide who you want to become. One of the greatest ways to go to that next [clears throat] level is to be around people who have also decided who they already are. Royals are around royals. They are around people who have also esteemed themselves to be full of discretion, to be full of the highest level of intelligence, and to understand that they are representing more than just themselves. Anytime I'm somewhere, I am Amanda Ferguson, but I'm representing way more than myself. I'm representing the kingdom of God. When you decide that and you show up in the world as who you want to become, you make sure that you forcefully saturate yourself with other people who have committed to becoming just like that. And I mean forcefully. And then number three, raise the standard. One of the worst things to do is to say, "I'm good. I'm feminine. I'm confident. I'm articulate. Great. Now, let's keep going to the next level. Let's keep getting stronger, softer, wiser, and continuing to raise the bar of not just measured success, but who we are as women in this world. Because there is something about when a woman shows up in her full authority that not only do people know who she is, but there's something that happens when everyone is in her presence. There's something that happens when she steps into her full authority that God says, "I am going to do something through this woman." Let you be that woman that rises up in this moment to decide what you want to also decide what you're willing to become and then how much more you are going to raise that standard for yourself. As I've always said, comfort feels good, but nothing, and I do mean nothing, grows there. If you finding yourself feeling comfortable in your look, in your presence, in your career, I'm telling you right now, it's time to raise the standard. All right. Now, go on out there and be feminine and dangerously confident.

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