HOW TO BOOST YOUR SELF-CONFIDENCE
Self-confidence
is a great force for personal progress, career advancement, and entrepreneurial
success. It can work wonders where other things are in short supply. There is
hardly anybody who has self-doubt and records significant accomplishments in
life.
One
of the very admirable and attractive attitudes of highly successful people is
that they are very self-confident. They believe in themselves, their talents,
their skills, and their decisions. They are mentally and emotionally organized.
Self-confidence is a serious dimension of internal organization.
Charles-Albert Poissant,
author of How to Think Like a Millionaire, says “Success depends less on outside circumstances than on
mental attitude and strength of character.”
Self-confidence is really the complete acceptance of yourself,
including your faults and all. It is a feeling of trust in your abilities, your
qualities and your choices. You know what? There are many gains of being
self-confident. Here are a few of them.
What You Gain
In Being Self-Confident
§ People will
admire you and be drawn to you. Everywhere,
self-confidence is seen as a success trait, and people naturally gravitate to
the person they see as being sure of himself or herself. They run away from the
self-doubting person. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, for instance, are
very self-confident and admirable footballers.
Self-confident people are also the preferred leaders
everywhere. People follow those who can inspire them, and provide answers to
their questions.
§ Self-confidence
improves your performance and results. Your
self-confidence is a reflection of your self-image. Our performance is always
consistent with our self-picture. You will always do your work according to the
level of your self-confidence.
§ Self-confidence
empowers you to overcome obstacles:
One strong factor that separates the rich from the poor is the courage to face
and win over setbacks. Self-confident people are bold and undaunted. They
refuse to be brow-beaten by the forces of difficulties and hurdles.
4 Tips of
Increasing Your Self-Confidence:
(1) Don’t dwell
on your ugly past: Low or no self-confidence is rooted in negative thought
habits of past failures, disappointments, mistakes, painful memories, and other
unhealthy experiences. When we dwell on these ugly pasts, they have a way of
deflating our self-confidence.
In the words of Stephen Covey, “Our response to any mistake affects the quality of the next moment.
It is important to immediately admit and correct our mistakes so that they have
no power over that next moment.” So forget about the past and move on.
(2) Use imagination to build the picture of a
self-confident you: Our subconscious mind doesn’t distinguish between
reality and what is imagined. That way, it always interprets what you imagine
as real. Indeed, our imagination is more important than the facts of the
situation.
When you consistently hold in your mind, the picture
of what you want to be, you’ll build a fantastic version of yourself.
(3) Develop your
skills and always get prepared: Update your skills in the areas of work,
communication, relationships, etc. In addition, always prepare in advance for the
upcoming events you have a role to play, whether it has to do with business
negotiation, giving a public address, marketing a product, and so on. All
success, including wealth, starts in the
(4) Don’t wish
you were another person: Marilyn Monroe says “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” You
are you, and the way God made you is the best. Don’t waste your person, only
keep improving yourself.
The way this world runs is that if you don’t first believe in yourself, nobody will. There is a
proverb that says that if the owner of the house calls it decayed or
dilapidated, then the public will help set fire on it. Therefore, call yourself
somebody. See yourself going somewhere in life. Be confident that the future will
keep getting better.
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