Building your Self-confidence
Self-confidence simply means having full assurance in yourself. It is the feeling of certainty and trust in your own ability.
Most times, we tie our confidence to our physical appearance. Now, we may not look good physically at that time, if we let our appearance to judge our thoughts, we end up feeling less of ourselves.
According to research, self-confidence plays a vital role in balancing health and psychological well-being. Self-confidence can also boost your academic and business achievement, thereby making you a star and a character worthy of emulation.
Your level of confidence determines how you exhibit yourself to others. This explains that your confidence had a huge role to play in your life. It is an essential part of humanity in general.
When you have confidence, you tend to believe in yourself and fill your mind with positive thoughts. Confidence makes you a better person. A confidence person is willing to take risks because he/she believes that success is achievable when you settle down to work towards it.
On the contrary, when you lack confidence you feel less about yourself and cloud your thoughts with pessimism. A person who lacks confidence is not willing to take risks to achieve their goals in life, they accept defeat even before the battle-line is drawn.
Step by step guide to building your confidence
There are diverse ways to build confidence and place your feet back on track. These steps have been carefully analyzed, tested and confirmed.
1. Identify your negative thoughts: The first and easier step to building your confidence is by identify the negative thoughts in your mind. Thoughts like "I will never make it there alive", "I will fail if I try", " I am never lucky", etc. When you dwell on negative thoughts, you will certainly lose your peace of mind. Now, loosing your peace of mind may affect your mental health and eventually kill you slowly.
2. Rebuke your inner voice when it centres on negativity: After you are able to identify your negative thoughts, you have to rebuke them. This can be done by clouding your mind with positive affirmations such as "I will be successful", "I'm the most luckiest person on earth", "I won't give up till I achieve my dreams", etc.
3. Maintain positive relationships: When you encounter people who give you positive vibes, try to keep them. It is not so easy to have positive response from people around you, so when you meet a few persons that respond to you positively you need to value their presence. Having friends that make you feel good about yourself will definitely boost your confidence.
4. Avoid negative relationships: Avoid people who only make you feel less of yourself. Their main target in your life is lowering your confidence. Take actions today! Try as much as possible to avoid people who say you cannot make it.
5. Embrace your talents: Everyone has at least one talent, either an hidden one, i.e when it has not been discovered or an obvious one which has already been revealed. You have to showcase your talent to the world because it makes you believe in yourself.
6. Value yourself: Do not devalue yourself because you feel you cannot make it. Always place value on yours at every given opportunity and in every step of the way. When you begin to place value on yourself, you discover that there will be an improvement in your confidence.
7. Stop comparing yourself with others: Learn to stop comparing your achievement with another person's achievement. When the other person succeeds where you fail resist the urge to condemn yourself. Comparison is an unavoidable "thing" in life but you realise that when you stop comparing yourself with others you begin to see your own achievements.
8. Pursue your goals in life: Be a goal getter. Aim for something huge, work towards it relentlessly and see how your confidence level will rank the highest. Therefore, your zeal to achieve success in life is one of the determinants of your confidence rate.
Take a bold step today!! Build your confidence!! Be a better person today!!
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