Everyone struggles with confidence from time to time. It is one of the first things when it comes to personal growth and self-esteem.
Self-confident people can end up more successful because they are able to make decisions with better focus and less hesitation. On the other hand, a lack of confidence can attract feelings such as anxiety and stress – both in professional life and in relationships.
If you feel like you’re overdue for a confidence boost, follow these tips and get ready to feel more motivated and capable in the face of a difficult decision or situation.
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Don’t Compare Yourself to Others
Comparing yourself to others is inevitable from time to time and is proven to be natural. However, it is unlikely to boost your self-confidence and has the opposite effect. Do it all the time because they earn more/have more than you can cause envy and make you feel worse about yourself.
If you tend to make this comparison more often than you’d like, follow these steps and stop living someone else’s life instead of your own:
- Always focus on your strengths and qualities when envying someone else’s life/achievements.
- Celebrate the conquests or victories of others instead of regretting that they are not your conquests and victories.
- Understand the importance of competing with yourself (and your limitations and your anxiety) and not competing with other people.
- Spend less time on social media and stop following profiles that make you regret your life.
- Think about ways to improve the quality of your life instead of thinking about how to be like someone else.
Listen to Your Body
Your body language and body posture speak a lot about your confidence. Someone who walks hunched over, or is afraid to look others in the eye, clearly shows weakness. Just sitting up straight, with a good posture, gives a better image of confidence.
Improving those can help you feel better about yourself and give you that confidence boost you need. Healthy eating, an exercise routine, getting a good night’s sleep instead of staying up all night haunted by doubts, and other healthy practices will help you feel and look better.
Change Your Look
Most of the time, you just need a little push to feel better about yourself and regain your self-confidence. Take a good look in the mirror and see if there’s anything you need to do to improve your look, even change it completely.
When was the last time you had a new haircut? Won’t it look better if you shave your beard or let it grow? How about going shopping and refreshing your clothes/looks, maybe even swapping your old frames for a pair of round glasses?
All these seemingly simple changes can instantly boost your confidence. After all, being happy with your appearance is important for being confident.
Accept the Failure
Try to go back in time and remember when you started having doubts about yourself. Probably the cause was some failure:
- A low grade in school.
- A wrong decision at work.
- An investment that made you lose money.
- Maybe a date that went wrong.
To regain your self-confidence, you must, first of all, accept failure. Everyone fails, and you cannot succeed immediately if you don’t fail at something. So don’t be harsh on yourself because of something that went wrong and instead try to understand why it failed and how you can get it right in the future.
Hang Out With Positive People
It all depends on the environment: how can you feel confident if people surround you without a shred of self-confidence? Avoid spending all your time with pessimistic people, full of doubts, or afraid to make decisions. They can make you feel doubly anxious – for yourself and them.
Spend more time with people that are positive and inspire/motivate you to be/to do better. The people you hang out with can easily boost your confidence.
Face Your Fears
If you’ve come this far, you probably think: “This is all great, but how will it help me overcome my fears?” Well, this is exactly the most important step in the process: you need to face your fears to recover your self-confidence finally.
We hear this a lot, but fear is the no.1 reason for lack of confidence. You need to face yours to feel better and proud of yourself.
And what is your fear? Ask your boss for a raise? Assessing a job or career change? Deciding who to date? Whatever it is, the best way to face it is to try imagining the worst that can happen. Hearing a “no” is much better than never trying and spending your life imagining what it would have been like.
Self-Confidence Can Make You Better
Whether in private or professional life, no one likes to deal with people full of doubts and worries. You need to demonstrate confidence in the decisions and actions you take to be respected and successful.
This can seem difficult, especially if you’ve been dealing with a lack of confidence for a long time, but sometimes, a little push is all it takes to get that instant confidence boost and feel better about yourself.
Self-confidence is essential to your self-esteem, so start putting these tips into practice today and show the world who you are.
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