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Tips on Building Self-Confidence

Self-confidence is a key skill for every goal you want to accomplish. Self-confidence means that you know who you are and what you're good at and that you can handle stress and generally perform under pressure. If you feel like you don't have enough self-confidence, you probably don't, so you should always try to increase your confidence by following a few day-to-day tips.

  1. Eercise

    • Exercise regularly, between three and five times a week. This boosts your self-confidence in a variety of ways. For one, you'll feel better about the way you look, which adds to your self-confidence. Second, the endorphins you release while exercising make you feel better about yourself. Finally, setting exercise goals, tracking your progress and achieving those goals improves your self-confidence by showing yourself exactly what your body is capable of doing.

    Preparation

    • You can boost your self-confidence by achieving more. So whenever you have a project, presentation or any other event that will showcase your skills, put a lot of effort into preparing for it. This helps you perform when you need to and will help boost your self-confidence by serving as a constant reminder that you are a capable, smart person. Rather than telling yourself how good you are, show yourself through your actions.

    Self Focus

    • Focus on yourself rather than other people. If someone says something unkind to you, choose not to let it affect you. This gives you power over yourself rather than giving it to other people, and it boosts your self-confidence. It may be difficult at first, but once you realize that other peoples' words and opinions are essentially meaningless. you start to feel more self-confident. Again, this is a matter of showing rather than telling. Show yourself that other people don't matter by ignoring their negativity.

    Fake It

    • Act confident. This can be tricky, especially if you have very low self-confidence, but if you break it into manageable chunks, you should be able to develop confidence. Try talking to one stranger every day. It doesn't have to be a long conversation, but rather just a quick insight, observation or joke. Once you realize that the stranger is likely to forget about you within 10 minutes, your self-confidence starts to develop.

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