Why is self-confidence so important?
- It is important because it gives you courage, self-esteem and assertiveness.
- When self-confidence is present, you are not afraid to take risks and to try new things…
- It is a quality of character that most people appreciate.
- When you possess confidence, you do not allow people’s words and actions to affect you how you feel.
- When you are confident you do not take things too personally. This means a more peaceful life.
Most people are not born with this quality of character. However, you can build it up.
You can build self-confidence by changing your mindset and your attitude toward life, even if various personal experiences in the past caused you to lose it.
Self confidence is often affected by how you believe people see you.
If you see yourself in your mind’s eye as lacking self confidence, you will behave accordingly, and people would treat you accordingly
How to Build Your Self-Confidence:-
Self confidence tips to help you build your confidence:
1.Think about what you have already done in your life:
if you experienced failure and unhappiness in your life, there certainly are a few achievements.
These need not be great achievements, but quite simple ones, such as getting good grades at school or college, promotion at work, getting along well with your neighbors, getting your driving license, or learning to swim.
Thinking about those achievements makes you realize that you have experienced success in your life, and not all is failure.
This would make you feel better about yourself and about your life, and improve your self-esteem.
2. Focus on what you did and achieved, not on what you did not do and did not achieve.
If you keep thinking about failure, you unconsciously expect and anticipate it, and might eventually attract it to you. This would further spoil your sense of self-confidence
You should replace this negative movie in your mind with a movie about success. See yourself in your mind, where you really want to be, living the life you really want.
If you keep watching a movie of success in your mind, you will eventually attract success. This process would build up your self-confidence.
3. Strengthen your willpower and self-discipline.
Lack of self-confidence goes hand in hand with lack of willpower and self-discipline.
When you strengthen your willpower and self-discipline, your self-confidence would grow strong too. I have written a lot about these topics in many articles.
I have also written a book about this topic, so there is no need to go deeper into it here.
Stronger willpower and self-discipline means more assertiveness, more self-esteem and more confidence.
4. Develop a positive attitude.
Instead of focusing on negative events and expecting the worse, make the effort to focus on the positive and expect positive results.
This might not be easy if your mindset has always been negative.
However, with persistence, you can change your mental habits and build a positive attitude. You will find plenty of information about positive thinking at this website.
It would help, if you strive to remove from your mind and from your vocabulary all negative thoughts and words, and refrain from using them in your conversation.
5. Give yourself motivational talks;
Remove any negative commentary running in your mind. Be firm, and do not allow negative comments about you and about your life to run in your mind.
You need to be more aware of what is going on in your mind and not allow negative self-talk to go on in your mind.
Remember:
To gain self confidence, you need to step out of your comfort zone.
Develop self confidence in your ability to achieve your goals.
Spend time to become a confident person, and feeling good about yourself, instead of feeling bad.
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
― Lao Tzu
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
– Dale Carnegie
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”
– Michael Jordan
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