Are you ready to be more confident ?
The most important thing woman can have is confidence in herself.
Confidence simply means having a positive self-image and a healthy sense of self-worth. Most times confidence can feel a bit difficult for women plagued with self-doubt while for some it comes so easily.
To be confident means to thoroughly embrace who you are and to be comfortable with your own strengths and weakness. If that doesn’t come naturally to you, that ok. It’s definitely a learnable trait.
Why would you need to be more confident?
Research shows that building self-confidence can lead to a greater sense of overall mental health and wellness, as well as more success in many different avenues of life. Overcoming low-confidence issues can help you achieve your goals in both your professional and personal life. Confident people often find greater success as employees or in business because their sense of self-worth helps them achieve their goals. On an interpersonal level, when you learn to love and accept yourself, it can be easier for other people to do the same.
5 Tips for How to Be More Confident
Becoming more confident is a process, so it’s important to have grace for yourself as you learn to have more faith in yourself. Follow these five tips to gain confidence:
Be kind to yourself.
Do your best to accept yourself just as you are in the present. Everyone has some things they might want to improve about themselves, but it’s much easier to do that when you already love who you are. Treating yourself with kindness when you make a mistake, fail, or experience a setback. It allows you to become more emotionally flexible and helps you better navigate challenging emotions, enhancing your connection to yourself and others.
Get outside of your comfort zone.
The more you go outside of your comfort zone, the more opportunities you’ll have to develop confidence in yourself. If you’re suffering from a lack of self-confidence, the last thing you might want is to put yourself in an uncomfortable situation, so take baby steps to the best of your ability. It’s normal to feel self-conscious as you begin to stretch yourself, and you might feel a bit awkward as you try new things you used to fear. Each time you face your fears, you’ll become a little more certain you can handle all life will throw at you.
Practice self-assured body language
Sometimes you have to fake it until you make it to build self-confidence by adopting confident body language can really help on this front. Stand up straight with your shoulders back. Practice power poses—stances where you puff yourself up as if there’s nothing in the world that can intimidate you. Do your best to maintain eye contact while people talk to you. Give yourself a break if you ever deviate from these practices and remember that this is all a learning experience.
Talk to yourself more positively
Negative self-talk limits your abilities and lessens your self-confidence by convincing your subconscious that you "can't handle" something or that it is "too hard" and you "shouldn't even try.
The next time you begin to think that you have no business speaking up in a meeting or that you are not pretty enough for a role remind yourself that your thoughts aren’t always accurate. Let’s turn those thoughts around into more positive self-talk.
Build positive relationships
Take a moment and think about how your friends make you feel. Do they lift you up, or do they bring you down? Are they constantly judging you, or do they accept you for who you are?
The people you spend time with can influence your thoughts and attitudes about yourself, perhaps more than you realize. Surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you. Seek out others who are positive and can help build your confidence. Self-confidence and a positive attitude go hand-in-hand.
Are you ready to be more confident ?
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