5 Tips to Feel Confident
- Let your body do the talking. Body language and facial expressions can be just as important as your words. Your posture is key.
- Be mindful of your tone of voice. You make others feel at ease if your voice is calm and/or friendly.
- Be a good listener. How you listen is just as important as what you say. Leave any distractions alone and maintain eye contact from time to time.
- Take a reality check. If you find your mind going to the opposite of confident thinking, stop and check the facts.
- Smile. Smiling generally lightens your mood and makes other people respond more positively to you.
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- Others taking credit for your work: speak up when presenting your joint ideas, else the boss will remember that the other was the one who did all the talking.
- Overanalyzing your tone or watering down criticism: understand the difference between sounding arrogant and assertive.
- Noisy coworkers: work somewhere else in the office or record the noises that you make during a workday—maybe the noises aren’t as bad as you think.
- Beign interrupted during meetings: to speak with authority and presence you need to feel worth listening to, and you can develop it for yourself.
- Making friends in the office: invite a coworker to lunch or ask to join a group of them. People are often happy to have new additions.
- Firing a hard worker that isn’t good enough: set clear benchmarks, and let them know what will happen if they don’t meet them.
- You want to leave early but others work late: talk to your boss if there is no reason for the extra time.
- Your employees don’t respect you: project confidence in your new role, then be specific and clear about your expectations.
- Interviewing while pregnant: it’s an opportunity to show your resourcefulness and preparation. Be ready with a plan for minimizing the impact of your absence.
- You don't want to attend to happy hour: try coming up with some time during work to bond–like lunch or family-friendly weekend events.
There is a life force that runs through all living things. Some people call it god. It is the creator, the enabler of life. God runs through us. We are life. We are god. We don’t need to do anything or achieve anything. We are already worthy of love. Because Love is the very essence of the life that runs through us.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
We really should stop judging ourselves