Five Tips To Boost Your Confidence
- Help others.
When we help others in need, most of the time we get a happy feeling afterwards, the feeling of gratitude towards other. When others believe in you, we automatically forced to believe in ourselves. Instead of focusing on your own weaknesses, volunteer to mentor, assist or teach another, and you’ll see your self-confidence grow automatically in the process.
Helping someone else often enables us to forget about ourselves and to feel grateful for what we have. It also feels good when you are able to make a difference for someone else.
- Take care for yourself.
In order boost your self-confidence, maintaining your physical health, emotional health and social health is necessary. It is hard to feel good about yourself if you hate your physique or constantly have low energy. Eat enough, take care of your body and your face, always sleep on time, and eat healthy meals.
- Learn to create personal boundaries.
It is necessary to have control upon yourself towards other, Teach others to respect your own personal boundaries. If necessary, take classes on how to be more assertive and learn to ask for what you want. The more control and say that you have over your own life, the greater will be your self-confidence.
- Face your fear.
The best way to overcome fear is to face it head-on. By doing something that scares you every day and gaining confidence from every experience, you will see your self-confidence soar. So get out of your comfort zone and face your fears!
- Affirm yourself.
Most of the time we tend to see our-self according to our own self- image. The trick to making lasting change is to change how you view yourself.
Affirmations are positive and uplifting statements that we say to ourselves. These are normally more effective if said out loud so that you can hear yourself say it. We tend to believe whatever we tell ourselves constantly. For example, if you hate your own physical appearance, practice saying something that you appreciate or like about yourself when you next look in the mirror.
To get your brain to accept your positive statements more quickly, phrase your affirmations as questions such as, “Why am I so good at making deals?” instead of “I am so good at making deals.” Our brains are biologically wired to seek answers to questions, without analyzing whether the question is valid or not.
