Do you ever feel as though you have no confidence? Maybe you try not to
bring too much attention to yourself, and find it hard to be in certain
situations in fear of being judged? Do you feel as though you may have low
self-worth? If so, the chances are that you have very low confidence.
This article is going to help you find
ways that you can build up your confidence and start living your best life. I
am going to talk about how you can build confidence and self-esteem. Before I
go into that, let’s take a look at why having confidence is important.
Why Is Confidence So Important?
It is important to have self-confidence for a lot of reasons.
Firstly, when you have self-confidence
you will start to feel more positive in life and will be more likely to do new
things or return to things that you enjoy that you may have stopped doing. You
are also likely to have better self-worth, which is the key to having good
confidence.
Having great self-worth will also help
you find things easier when it comes to being confident. When you are confident
you are taking back control of your life, and help yourself to achieve what it
is you want to achieve in life.
Ways
To Boost Your Confidence
We are going to be looking at ways that
will help you to build your confidence. You will learn more about yourself and
hopefully, will start to feel more positive and do more things that used to scare you. Building your confidence
can lead to many new possibilities as you will be in a different mindset to
achieve your goals.
For now, let’s look at 5 ways you can
boost your confidence.
1. Kill Negative Thoughts
If you had a friend who had been going
through a hard time and constantly put themselves down, would you talk to them
the way that you talk to yourself?
If the answer that that question is no,
you need to start getting rid of your own negative
thoughts. When you are constantly having negative thoughts about yourself or
the situation you may be in, it can really affect you from achieving your goals
and building your confidence.
You need to kill these thoughts, they
will come into your head as this is normal, but you must not dwell or listen to
them, instead, acknowledge them and then let them go.
2. Get To Know Yourself
When you can understand yourself, your
thoughts and your self-worth, you can start to work towards improving it. If
you have negative thoughts, acknowledge them and write them down, you can then
reflect on it and see what you can change to make your self-worth grow.
If you do not take time to listen to
yourself and understand how much you put yourself down, you will not know how
to change it for the better.
This is why it may be good for you to
write in a journal, as you will be able to see your thoughts and the way you
treat yourself physically in front of you and can work on improving it for the
better.
3. Change Your Body Language
It is true that changing your posture, smiling or even
making eye contact can instantly make you feel and look more confident. Others
will also see that you look more confident too.
If you can imagine a confident person,
you would normally envision someone who is happy, gives good eye contact and is
standing up straight with their head held high. If you are talking to someone
while not giving them eye contact, staring at the floor and maybe fiddling with
your bag or hair, you will give off the impression that you are not confident,
making it known to others but also to yourself.
Acting as though you have great
confidence can actually help you to build it.
4. Create A Positive Support Network
If you surround yourself with people who
make you feel bad or knock you down, you are not going to be able to build your
confidence.
Being around negative people will only
bring you down, and make you lose more confidence. You need to surround yourself
with people who lift you up instead of bringing you down.
Having a supportive network is a great
way to boost confidence as they will make you feel more positive and start to
feel better about yourself. This will help you to gain confidence and start to
improve your self-esteem.
5. Practice Self Care
You need to look after yourself in order
to feel good and have great self-worth. Being able to look after yourself and practice self care could be having some ‘me time’, which
could include a bubble bath, pamper session or reading your favorite book.
Looking after yourself will help you
feel so much better, and when you are feeling positive and in a good headspace,
you can start to work on your confidence. Doing things, you like to do and
treating yourself with respect is great self-care, and self-care determines the
self-worth you have. All of these things come hand in hand and are needing to
help build confidence and self-esteem.
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