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You can be critical without criticizing.
When you criticize yourself in response to a mistake, you create an unrealistic view of yourself that’s almost always too negative. And, unsurprisingly, this isn’t great for your confidence.
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Trusting your feelings
Your feelings will lead you in the wrong direction at least as often as the right one.
Listen to your emotions, but don’t trust them blindly.
Treat your emotions like a friend. When they give you advice, listen to it. But be prepared to reject it o...
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Compromising on your boundaries
When you respect yourself enough to maintain good boundaries, confidence is the natural result.
Confidence rests on the foundation of self-respect. And self-respect comes from setting (and enforcing!) healthy boundaries that protect your wants, needs, and values. But enfor...
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Quit hiding from what you really want
It’s hard to feel confident in yourself when you’re constantly denying yourself.
Some self-denial is perfectly healthy. But if you’ve gotten into the habit of always denying your own wants and needs, it shouldn’t be a surprise that you don’t feel very confident ask...
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Put the breaks on catastrophizing
3. Put the breaks on catastrophizing
Even if you know intellectually that the worst case isn’t likely to happen, if you constantly tell yourself it is, that’s how you’ll feel.
It’s difficult to feel confident if you’re constantly worryi...
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Second-guessing yourself
- Low confidence leads to second-guessing, but second-guessing also leads to low confidence.
- Stop second-guessing yourself in the moment and schedule time to do it deliberately.
- Confidence and humility are not mutually exclusive.
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All You Need to Know
If you want to feel more confident, start thinking about what habits you have that are interfering with your confidence, then work to remove them.
- Coping with anxiety
- Reassurance-seeking
- Catastrophizing
- Not asking for what you really want
- Trying to contr...
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Stop trying to cope with anxiety
When you immediately try and get rid of your anxiety by applying coping skills to make it go away, you teach your brain to view anxiety as dangerous.
So stop coping with your anxiety and learn to accept it.
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Let go of things you can’t control
A good way to never feel confident is to always be failing. And a good way to always be failing is to always be trying to control the uncontrollable.
Of course, it’s often hard to distinguish what we can control from what we can’t—especially if we really want to be able to control it…
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Avoid reassurance-seeking
If you always outsource your emotional struggles to others, you deprive yourself of the opportunity to be confident.
A big part of emotional maturity—and the confidence that results from—comes from taking responsibility for your own feelings.
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Dwelling on past mistakes
If you’re constantly reliving past mistakes in your head, it’s going to be tough to feel confident about yourself in the present.
Give yourself permission to let it go. And then work like hell to keep letting it go, each time it comes up. Forgiveness is a commitment, not a ...
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Self-confidence is a feeling of trust in your abilities, qualities, and judgment. Research suggests that confidence is important to health and psychological well-being. Learn how to be more confident and some of the benefits of increasing your trust and belief in yourself.
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Stop having a victim attitude
When you see yourself as the ‘poor me’ victim, your actions will confirm a negative view of yourself.
Don’t obsess about past mistakes in life. Let go of unrealistic expectations and visions of where you ‘should be’.
Reaction And Response
When someone reacts, it is often an emotionally negative response. When someone responds, it is a forward-thinking, progressive-acting answer.
Reacting is often an emotional response that drags you down. Be responsive, forward-thinking, and push yourself to be better as a leader.
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