Confidence isn’t something that comes easily to everyone. For some it shows up intermittently, for others confidence is evasive at best. We could all do with a nice self-confidence boost at times! These past couple of years with Covid have really taken a toll on many people. The toll has been emotional, mental, and financial. For us it has been a wild roller coaster with work situations and finding our way back to our daily rhythms. So much uncertainty can be a big kick to anyone’s level of confidence.
But of course, confidence is required to achieve our hopes, dreams and goals. I know that during times of uncertainty and upheaval, it really help me when I journal my thoughts and feelings. It clears my mind clutter and helps bring me back to my center so I can focus on next steps. Perhaps you feel the need to do this too? Grad a pen and your journal, and start taking notes on the following proven ways to start to boost your self-confidence.
Know Your Strengths
What are you good at? Everyone is good at something. Grab onto your strengths, write them down where you can see them, and refer to your list often. Whenever you’re lacking confidence, grab your list of strengths and review them. Whenever you need to make a presentation, sale, or important decision, grab your list of strengths and review them. Knowing and appreciating your strengths is a great way to boost your self-confidence.
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Celebrate Your Success
People tend to spend a whole lot of time berating themselves for their failures and mistakes and about thirty seconds celebrating a job well done. That’s backwards. Mistakes happen, and those who are successful spend a few minutes evaluating their mistakes and finding the lesson in them and then they move on.
They don’t spend hours, days and weeks going over the mistake in their mind. What they do, and what we can all learn from, is celebrate their successes. In fact, many successful people are skilled at using their accomplishments to promote their blogs or businesses. Press releases, testimonials, awards, and achievements are all publicized to establish their credibility and authority.
Visualize Success to Boost Self-Confidence
Our brains are interesting organs. When we visualize ourselves being successful and achieving our goals, it actually makes us feel more confident. Olympic and professional athletes know this and spend hours before a competition or performance visualizing their success. They visualize the entire race from the beginning gunfire to what it feels like to cross the finish line and break the ribbon. They hear the crowd screaming, they feel their feet pounding the pavement and they smell the hamburger stand down the street.
You can use this same power of visualization to boost your confidence. Visualize making your next sale, launching your next product or service or signing that six-figure dollar contract.
Get in the Habit of Feeling Your Self-Confidence
One of the best ways to boost self-confidence and accomplish your goals at the same time is to create a habit of success. This is accomplished by creating smaller, attainable goals.
For example, if your sales goals for the year are $100,000, this may feel like too large a number to attain. However, if you break your sales goals down into smaller, bit-sized goals, then they feel more manageable. You could instead shoot for a daily sales goal or a weekly sales goal, outline the steps to make it happen and then celebrate your success.
This way you’re taking steps toward your larger goal and at the same time boosting your confidence, giving you more faith in your ability to be successful.
Take Risks
Confident people are able to take risks without fear. If you’re lacking self-confidence, risks feel much more significant and powerful. The result is that the risk is avoided and nothing is accomplished. To boost your self-confidence, take a few risks. Start small, like in the previous tip, and take risks that don’t feel so frightening. As you become accustomed to risks, and success, you’ll be able to dive into bigger risks and opportunities with more confidence.
Of course, there are also the old standbys for confidence-boosting like smiling, standing up tall, dressing for success and surrounding yourself with loving supportive people. These are all great ways to boost your self-confidence. However, if you have big dreams and goals, you’re going to want to take bigger steps to boost your self-confidence.
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