Here's 4 tips on how to get confidence to help you feel a greater sense of self belief.
1. Be prepared to push through the fear of failure
If you currently lack self confidence, then you'll have had disappointments in the past. These failures created your low self belief. You have to be willing to take a chance that this might happen again because building self confidence is a risky game.
2. Go out and do what you lack confidence in
The key in how to get confidence is to experience genuine success at things. This happens because the mind suddenly realises "Hey, I'm actually good at this!" Like I said though, whilst you're hoping for success, you have to be willing to fail. Taking risks is a massive part of building self confidence.
3. Accept the ups and downs of your confidence level
As people, we are not perfect. Our confidence levels are constantly fluctuating; although some more than others. Your level of confidence depends on how long ago you last succeeded. We don't succeed all the time in life, so if you haven't experienced some genuine awesome success for a while, embrace this.
It's part of human life not to succeed all the time. Because you don't get success constantly, you won't feel on top of the world in every waking moment. Accept that although you can improve your confidence level in general, it will always be changing depending on your circumstances.
Once you can embrace that your confidence won't always be sky high, you can say to yourself "These ups and downs are all part of the long term process of how to get confidence. I should feel confident even at low points, because I know that these small lapses are bound to happen, since I'm only human."
4. Visualise your successes!
It has been psychologically proven that your subconscious mind cannot differentiate between real, actual success, and just imagined success. The effects of real success are better, since it is actually real. But this doesn't mean you can't imagine your success first to get an extra confidence boost!
Whatever you lack confidence in, imagine yourself doing great at it. Picture the scene where your most wanted end result actually happens. How are you feeling? What are other people's reactions? Block out everything else from your mind, and picture yourself succeeding.
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Your subconscious mind will engrain this success inside itself - you will actually be instantly more confident! This, for me was the beginning step in learning how to Build Self Confidence
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