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Ask Questions and Define Your Terms
Define yourself by your own assessment of your worth and work—don’t allow others to define it for you.
Admit when you don’t know something, so you can learn and grow. You can’t truly take a learner’s approach to the world until you are willing to admit where you lack knowledge and fill in the gaps.
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20. Instill Habits of Confident Women in your Daughters
Confident women raise daughters who make their own decisions, make their own money and make their own mistakes, says Scully. Know the habits and signs of confident girls, and help instill them in your daughters from birth—and
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Choose Your Friends Wisely but Don’t Be Afraid of Alone
Confident women can walk into any room alone and walk out with several new acquaintances.
Just as you should surround yourself with other confident women and positive people, Scully notes that confident women are not brought down by others. Confident women know when to walk away from people...
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Be aware of Your Surroundings, Cultivate Mindfulness
Mindfulness is an activity in which you “purposely live in the moment and experience that moment with all your senses.” When you’re present and in the moment, you will naturally exude confidence.
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Spend Time with Other Confident Women
Surrounding yourself with positive people can boost your self-esteem, and in turn your self-confidence. You will feel empowered around like-minded...
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Be Passionate
Being passionate about a subject will increase your confidence. You can’t be passionate and weak—the two don’t go together.
Just being happy and enjoying your life builds self-esteem and self-worth.
It’s very empowe...
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Start with Small, Achievable Goals
In his book Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success , G. Richard Shell notes that Olympic athletes train in a way that accumulates small wins and slowly builds confidence in their abilities. Smart w...
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Traits that help women develop confidence
What makes certain women appear confident and in control? There are habits that confident women adopt.
Confidence comes from knowing your area of expertise so thoroughly that you speak about it with complete certainty and...
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Hold Your Head High
Even when you’re feeling a little wobbly, use your body language to convey the opposite—stand up straight, hold your head high, ground yourself and just look the part.
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You Do You
Confident women don’t care about labels or logos, but create their own style and aesthetic, says Eileen Scully , founder of The Rising Tides and author of In the Company of Men ...
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Lift Up Other Women
Confident women are always lifting up other women. Helping others achieve their dream shows you’re empowered.
Confident women raise daughters who make their own decisions, make their own money and make their own mistakes. Know the habits and signs of confident girls, and help instill them i...
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Dress for Success
Our clothes can actually increase our confidence when we feel good in them. Think about how you feel when you go to a job interview in a nice suit. Dress for the job you want. When you feel and
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Put Yourself in Charge and Take Risks
Put yourself in charge. You should take charge and not let other people make your decisions for you in both your professional and personal lives.
Taking risks is part of being confident.
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Say No
Saying no can sometimes be even harder than saying yes. But the ability to create boundaries will make you feel proud, especially if you’re good at holding the line.
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Questions to Ask Oneself For Being Inclusive
- Have the humility to know that there’s much you don’t know about others’ experiences.
- Have the courage to ask difficult questions about your own leadership style.
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Healing Your Self-Sabotaging Behavior
- Notice self-judgments.
- Shift your definition of your worth, from outcomes to effort. Decide that you will define your worth by the loving actions you take for yourself and others.
- Consciously see mistakes and failure as stepping stones to success, ra...
7. Ask Questions
The key, however, is to ask open-ended questions . That is, ask questions that don’t have a simple “yes or no” answer.
It’s the difference between Do you like living here? and What do you think about living here? Or the difference between Where did you...
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