Self-confidence is a feeling and a belief. It is such an important trait to possess, and one that requires a lot of work to develop and nurture.The great news is that we can re-wire ourselves to change these feeling and belief to make them more positive and compassionate towards ourselves. How do you do that? By shifting your attention to what works. How do we develop self confidence within ourselves?

How To Develop and Nurture Your Self Confidence?

The best and most effective way to develop self-confidence is by becoming aware of the areas in your life where you feel strong. Take some time to answer some of the questions below: What makes you unique?What do you have that most people don’t?What makes you feel strong?What are your core values?What do you stand for?What are you passionate about?What fuels your fire?Where do you want to go?Who could you help and how could you help them?

1. Develop awareness within yourself

<ul><li>Repeat this questioning regularly to check in with yourself and make sure you are reminded of your strengths.</li><li>Ask for feedback to other people and compare their perception to yours.</li><li>Do something new every week and check how it made you feel.</li><li>Find a motto that you can easily use and repeat a few times to nourish your belief.</li></ul>

2. Nurture your feelings and beliefs to reinforce it

There will be moments when you don't feel strong enough, even the best positive affirmations won’t help. It happens to everyone. You can’t be strong and assertive and confident 100% of the time.First, what does it say?What was the event that triggered the critic?What can you learn about it?What would you respond?It is vital to know your inner critics. They serve a purpose. Yet, why on earth do we allow this nasty little inner voice, to continually put us down and hold us back?

3. Face your inner critics

Self-confidence is both a feeling and a belief. Explore yours now and develop them with our tips.

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How To Develop And Nurture Your Self-Confidence

1. Failure leads to successIf you want to be successful, failure is necessary.There is nothing wrong with failure as long as you learn from it and apply it to your endeavours in the future.2. The more you learn, the more you realized how little you knowNo matter how old we get and how much we think we know, <a href="https://medium.com/@tom.stevenson78/no-one-has-all-the-answers-86f248676fb8">we will always have blind spots </a>.3. If something scares you, you should probably go for itFear only gets smaller the closer, sometimes that’s all we need to do.4. The more available something is, the less we want itJust because something is scarce does not mean it’s valuable.

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