Do you know that confidence is a reflection of your feelings about your personality and abilities. It indicates your trust and judgment in yourself, your appearance, abilities, and qualities. Moreover, your confidence and self-esteem impact your relationships, career, well-being, and general perception of life.

Quite a few of us fall short of self-confidence from time to time, I know I do, one minute I am full of confidence and raring to go and then on occasions I am doubting myself. This self-doubt can limit our advancement in life. If this way of thinking becomes habitual, it can lead to a person spending little time on self-care and self-development, which are very important to wellbeing.

This article explores how you can boost your confidence and maintain a balance in your relationship with yourself and others, so you can increase your self-confidence and ‘fly higher’ than ever before. Thus, achieving more, than you ever thoughtpossible. You can do it; you just have to believe that it is possible!

5 Ways to Boost Your Confidence

Here are some of the ways you can boost your confidence.

Love Yourself

Self-love is a strong emotional feeling that can make or mar aperson. Believe it or not, there are some people out there who just do not like themselves! Self-love is the act of kindness and compassion you show yourself, like you are dealing with someone who you deeply care about.

When you love yourself, you will care about improving every aspectof your life, thereby increasing your confidence. This self-love includes personal appearance, enhancement of your knowledge about the world and self-improvement and your growth in diverse abilities and skills.

Moreover, loving yourself increases your emotional flexibility and helps you to see life more objectively. Self-love is the key to resolving other emotional challenges and establishing a healthy and loving relationship with others.

By loving yourself, you will be showing to yourself and the world your invaluable worth and contribution.

Stop The Comparison

No two persons are exactly the same in terms of appearance, attitude, ability etc., so you need to stop comparing yourself to others.

Unhealthy comparisons are one of the major destroyers of confidence. It makes you feel less relevant and lowers your self-esteem. You cannot compare your chapter 1 with someone else’s chapter 11. It is not realistic!

It doesn’t matter what position you find yourself in at any given time. What matters is your readiness to improve yourself in any area in which you may be lagging and remain consistent with pushing forward.

Remember that those people you feel are better than you, will have some areas where you are more capable than them. That is how life and people are, no matter what part of the world you come from. So, concentrate on you and what you are doing and be encouraged to keep rising to the next level.

Confront Your Fears

Procrastination or putting things off are tactics that some people use to delay what generally is the inevitable. When we delay or procrastinate a task or decision, this will generally lead to stress and a negative outcome. Procrastination occurs for several reasons; do you recognize yours?

Fear of failure or a perfectionism attitude

Overwhelm by the complexity of the task

Lack of motivation or interest

Poor time management skills

Instant gratification from engaging in other less productive things

Fear of judgment by others, as some people feel that they may embarrass themselves by taking that bold step and that other people will laugh or critcise them

Do you know that there are many skills that I teach that you can learn to combat the ‘fear’ that is stopping you from progressing.

Really, there is no better way to build your confidence than to confront your fears head-on. Once you have beaten that challenge once, the next time you meet it, it will be so much easier. Always see problems as a gateway to becoming a better version of yourself.

When you make mistakes, learn from them and improve your approach to similar issues in the future. That way, your confidence will keep growing.

Remember, don’t miss out on something that could be great just because it could be difficult!

Engage in What You Love

Have you ever tried doing something that you are not passionate about? You will constantly feel anxious and heavily burdened by it.

But there is always an exciting and amazing feeling that comes from doing things you love. Such engagement boosts your confidence and self-esteem.

You always look forward to such things as they help to build your personal strength. Moreover, this approach leads to personal satisfaction and happiness in the long run.

Set Your Boundaries

You will not go far without setting personal boundaries in different areas of your life. Setting your limits will reduce stress and is part of loving yourself and will help to boost your confident.

Detach from toxic relationships, situations and interactions that encroach on your space and happiness. Stop pleasing unreasonable people at the expense of your own happiness and personal needs. This includes learning when and how to say ‘NO’, so you avoid things that exert your energy and time.

One Last Word…

Confidence is not static, sometimes you will be full of confidenceand other times your confidence will receive a knock. Never let these knocks throw you off course for more than a few minutes, always,
always reflect and think what you could do better next time.

A great book that tackles ways to stop procrastination is: Eat That Frog!: Get More Of The Important Things Done, by Brian Tracy