Building Self Confidence - An Effective Approach

By Stephen C Campbell

There are important points that you need to consider in building self confidence. When you are successful in following these points, you can make your self more productive. Well, surely, you will pay attention to this because, like most of the people, you are also want techniques on how to gain self confidence.

One thing that you need to understand is that, you can start improving self confidence from the smallest thing to the largest changes in your life. Meaning, you can make a self-confidence improvement from an activity that you do in daily life. Daily activities in your home, school, community, etc. can contribute for building your confidence

How to gain self-confidence on daily basis? Well, you can start in simple things. For instance, developing your outside appearance can help to boost your self confidence; this can help you to make you feel better about your self. You can augment your appearance by changing your hair color, your hairstyle, your outfit- all of these can contribute on how to build self confidence.

You can also do things to help you to develop inside of your self. How to build self-confidence through this? Well, one thing that you can do to have it done is to read some great books because in this way, you can stimulate your mind. You can also take a hot bat, drink a cup of tea and use some body lotions- all these can stimulate your mind and thus, can help in improving self confidence.

And also, knowing your needs for your self or being certain on what you want can help improving your self. When you see yourself needing some attention or pampering, then you should do it. If you think that you need to be isolated from people for some time, then do it. These are important for your mental health; knowing what you need can make you feel the best out of your life and this can help improving self confidence.

If you think that there is something lacking in your life, you should have a self-assessment in order to find what is missing and so you are able to design a strategy for it. This is an important act for you to be in best control of your mind. Feeling good, looking good will surely make your tasks to have good results.

Lastly, you can also talk to the people around you- your friends, your superiors, your teachers. Surely, you can learn a lot from them about your self and this can help you in boosting or improving self confidence. Having your self with people, especially with your friends in building self-confidence.

About the Author: Stephen C Campbell (Master NLP Practitioner) has published more information about effective strategies to develop self confidence at http://www.confidenceinspeechandmanner.com/

Do you have low or high self-confidence?

By Emmanuel Segui

You can find out if you have low or high self-confidence by asking yourself the right questions.

If you have high self-confidence, you will agree with the following statements:

- I am eager to learn new things.

- I take pride in doing a good job and being a nice person.

- I can handle criticism without being too emotional.

- I know what things I am good at, and those that I'm not.

- It is okay if I win or if I lose.

- Before I do something, I usually think "I can do it."

- I like to try to do things without help but, I don't mind asking for help if I really need it.

- I like myself.

Does this sound like you? If some of the items in this checklist sound like you, that's good… you're developing self-confidence! Remember to tell yourself everyday that you are a capable person!

Repeat 10 times "I like Myself!", several times a day.

If this doesn't sound like you at all, check out the following questionnaire to find out if you have low self-confidence. If you have low self-confidence, you might agree with the following statements:

- I do not like to try new things.

- I can't do anything right.

- If my friends criticize me, I get very upset.

- I don't know what I am good at.

- I have a hard time meeting new people or making friends.

- I am embarrassed to ask a question or speak up in a group.

- Before I do something, I may think "I can't do it."

- I don't like to try new things unless someone shows me how to do it first.

- I don't like myself.

If many or all of these items sound like you, it will be helpful for you to work on raising your self-confidence.

Try these steps to boost your self-esteem and you will automatically boost the level of self-confidence.

- Think positive thoughts about yourself! Focus on your strengths – not your weaknesses. Realize that you are better at some things than others.

- Set realistic goals. This means not setting goals too high or too low, but at a level you know you can reach. Then, you can always strive to do better than your goal.

- Give yourself credit when you reach a goal and praise yourself when you have done well. Have a party! who told you it was wrong?

- Learn to be assertive – express your thoughts, opinions, needs, and feelings openly – but without abusing others' rights.

- Don't compare yourself to others - remember, you're just fine the way you are! Comparison is one of the first reason for low self-esteem and depression. You think that others are better than you. If you think so, you are probably right, but actually, it's totally wrong.

- Practice positive body language. Walk tall, don't slump. When your body says "I can" everyone will believe you can.

Assess yourself on a regular basis. Ask yourself these questions. Buy a book or a course on self-confidence and do the assessment again to see if you improved. Learn from it and move on...

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