Believe in Yourself: Boost Your Confidence in Just 30 Days
Chances are you believe in others more than you believe in yourself. You're probably the first to encourage a friend to keep going because they have what it takes. But when it comes to encouraging yourself, it's easy to shy away due to self-doubt.
It's not fair to cheat yourself out of opportunities. Having low self-confidence can cause you to lose out on awesome experiences. And you certainly don’t want that, do you?
Now is a great time to start focusing on yourself and work on boosting your confidence. And it's surprisingly easy to do.
Follow these steps to boost your confidence and start
believing in yourself:
1.
Avoid hesitation. Self-doubt is often
developed out of hesitation. Do you take a long time to act on an impulse? If
you see an opportunity, does it take you a while to go after it? The
longer you take to pursue something, the more reasons you'll find for
justifying your unsuitability for the opportunity.
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Avoid
"sleeping on it" if you can decide right away. For a self-doubter,
delaying a response usually means losing the confidence to go after the
opportunity.
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Do
you think you’re not ideal for a new role you've been offered at work? Forget
about that for a minute. Focus on the fact that you were actually offered the
job for a reason!
2.
Challenge negative
thinking.
It's easy to diminish self-confidence by harboring negative thoughts. But
before you accept negative thoughts about yourself as a reality, challenge the
thinking.
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Instead
of accepting you're not good enough, take a moment to think about the facts.
Have there been instances which support your negative thinking? If the answer
is yes, then remind yourself of your many positive experiences as well.
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Beware
of thought patterns that can eat away at your self-esteem. Avoid looking at
life as "black or white" and live in the grey area sometimes. You may
not have one trait or another, but you could have the perfect combination of
what you need for your life!
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Always
be sure to differentiate between feelings and facts. Just because something
makes you feel a particular way doesn’t mean there’s any fact in it.
3.
Be kind to yourself. As
someone who rarely displays self-confidence, you probably give yourself a hard
time and consider yourself inadequate or ill-equipped. But when was the
last time you were actually kind to yourself?
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Spend
some time each day highlighting your positive traits. Remind yourself what
makes you beautiful inside and out.
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Celebrate the small successes to help remind yourself
that you're actually more amazing than you give yourself credit for.
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Try
spending some time with positive people. Their energy rubs off quite easily!
4.
Learn to listen to
and accept compliments. Most of the time when people say nice things about
you, they mean it! Take the time to really hear what positive things are being said about
you. Absorb the thought and believe them!
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If
someone says you're beautiful, believe them!
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Spend
some time listening to the kind things said by others. And remember to say
thanks each time. It helps to cement the positive thoughts in your mind.
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