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How To Build The Self-Confidence You Need To Win At Life - Darius Foroux
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Lack Of Self-Confidence
... is associated with:
- Depression
- loneliness and feeling left out
- Lower academic achievement
- Lower life satisfaction
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Bernice Milburn Moore
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Building Your Self-Confidence
You become more self-confident if you become better at what you do.
The process goes like this:
- Improve your competencies
- Put them into practice
- See results
- Grow more confident
- Repeat
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"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.”
Thomas Carlyle
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Skills everyone can benefit from
- Emotional intelligence: Understanding other people’s emotions and how to respond to them.
- Self-awareness: Try to understand why you do what you do, what you can do better, and what you’re doing well. Know yourself.
- Problem-solving: Identifying issues, find and evaluate different solutions and choose the most appropriate option.
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Trick your brain into calm
- Become aware of your safety and breathing. Your fight or flight response may be in overdrive.
- Take note of five things you can see, four things you can hear, three ...
Using affirmations
Remind yourself how awesome you are with affirmations. Write down affirmations that remind you of your capabilities and strengths and keep them somewhere you can find them if nerves strike.
Another suggestion is to keep a file of praise, awards, and other evidence of how good you are at your job an read them when you are struggling with a confidence crisis.
Get clear about your feelings
Take a moment to really analyze what you’re feeling and strategize for that.
Can you reframe negative feelings, like fear, into something more positive, like anticipation? If not, remind yourself that it’s perfectly normal to be nervous before a high-stakes situation.
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Bad behaviors cascade
That reticence to ever ask someone out on a date probably plays out in your failure to move to a new city, to take that new job or the timidity around your co-workers.
Standing out of the crowd
People don’t like it when someone changes or does something that makes them feel awkward or insecure. They will think he’s crazy, selfish, arrogant. If you want to do something incredible, you have to become comfortable with being different from the rest.
Nothing worth having comes easy
As cliche as that sounds. Most of us give up on something we’re passionate about too soon. But anyone who’s been successful has a tale of struggle and perseverance to share.
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Self-Affirmations
Self-affirmations are a reflection of who you are. It is a way of thinking and writing about yourself, moreover, the things you stand for like your values in life....
Positive Self-Affirmation Ideas
It is better to create your own self-affirmations if you do not reverberate with the whole "I radiate beauty and grace". If you don't know how, here are some self-affirmations that inspire me:
- You've done it in the past, you can do it again.
- Do it today, not tomorrow.
- Learn to love the difficult.
- Just get done with it and move on!
- So what!? Stop taking everything so seriously.
- Stop overthinking and let's go!
- I am a finisher. I am almost there!
Remember, self-affirmations are your core values.