Self Confidence: Build Yours Today!
Having a lack of self confidence or low self esteem can affect nearly all areas of your life. It can affect you while out with friends, while giving a presentation and while meeting new people, to name a few. Confidence issues can be brought about for many different reasons and over time they can become so commonplace that we just expect them to happen. If you are dealing with confidence issues at the moment you will understand just how it can affect your life and sometimes even stop you from doing things that you really want to. Often times it gets in the way of someone getting a promotion or meeting new people and making new friends as well as dating.
I have put together a list of some of the tips I give to my clients to help them regain their confidence.
- Surround yourself with positivity- Positive, enthusiastic and passionate people are contagious. Surround yourself with them and allow their confidence to brush off on you. By being around positive people we will learn how they confidently deal with things in their life that would throw us off course.
- Create a new image- Go out and get something new that you feel good about and can show off with confidence. A new outfit, new hairstyle, new nail polish etc., even something as simple as bettering your posture or holding your head high and making eye contact can help you look more confident. When you have something you feel good about it helps you walk around with more confidence.
- Watch what you say to yourself- We all talk to ourselves as we think about things. We say things like, ‘Oh I can’t afford that!’ or 'I could never pull that off'. This type of inner talk can be quite negative as it closes our mind to finding a change or solution. Instead saying something like, ‘How could I afford that’, allows you to use your brain for thinking and and flexibility and ultimately finding a solution.
- Make a change: move careers, move to a new city, apartment or house or make a new friend. If you find that an element of your life is causing you to lack confidence – change it! Remember though that you set the limit on what is impossible, so open up your mind and consciously decide what you can and can’t do rather than just relying on your emotions to make these decisions for you.
I hope that you put this small collection of tips to good use and get the confidence that you deserve and desire. I wish you the very best of luck and success.