How to Develop Your Self-Confidence
70Possessing confidence in yourself is possibly one of the most important qualities you could ever acquire. Believing in yourself and knowing that anything is possible and nothing is out of your reach will lead to many wonderful and great things in your life. So, I pose this question to each of you: Are you confident in yourself?
If you have suffered from low self-esteem, then you most likely don’t know what it feels like to be confident in yourself. While confidence won’t bloom overnight, it will grow over time when you begin to work on it.
Free Yourself From Doubt
One thing that leads to a lack of confidence is doubt in one’s self. When you are constantly unsure of everything you do, that doubts feeds on itself. Eventually, you end up doubting and second-guessing yourself all the time. Most of the time, you do it so much on a regular basis that it becomes a way of life and you don’t even realize you’re doing it anymore.
Believe In Yourself
You must believe in yourself. You have to know deep in your heart that anything is possible for yourself. As you begin to practice believing in yourself, you combat self-doubt and fear. Belief in yourself works like laying a strong foundation. You begin pouring concrete of self-belief. Before long, you’ve built a rock-solid foundation.
You will stop doubting yourself and wondering if you made the right decision. You will know every time that you did the right thing and made the best possible choices for yourself.
Believe In Your Abilities
It’s one thing to believe in yourself and another to believe in what you can do. While you might find it somewhat easy to begin believing in yourself, actually applying that inner confidence to your life might not be quite so simple for you.
Don’t let any opportunity pass you by anymore, just because you are afraid you will be a failure. Someone wise once said that it is better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all. Every time you try, you are showing the world that you believe in yourself and you believe in your talents and skills. Let them shine through.
Remember, confidence in yourself is not something to be expected to happen overnight. You have to work on this every day of your life. Every baby step leads to another one. Get rid of all that self-doubt, start believing in yourself and your skills, then kick your life into action.
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I know what you mean, Eileen. My self-confidence definitely developed more around 25-30. I think as an adult it becomes easier to develop your confidence if/when you stop worrying so much about what others think or say and just start living for yourself, too.
It is very important to believe in yourself. It sad when people base their whole opinion of him or herself on what others think of them.
So very true, Jim. Thanks for your insight! :)
As you stated very well above, it takes more than just throwing on a switch of sudden self confidence... especially if the individual has suffered prolonged physical and verbal abuse. Unfortunately, the individual would have to find a way to muzzle the demons of "I'm must not be good enough to feel good about myself" and release the angels of positivity... good hub topic!
I know... I'm back and sounding bizarre... chalk it up to the drugs I've been taking to combat the migraine and ear infection demons! :)
I love your analogy: "the individual would have to find a way to muzzle the demons of "I'm must not be good enough to feel good about myself" and release the angels of positivity". You are so very right! :)
Eileen Hughes says:
16 months ago
Very important topic. No self confidence can hold people back so much for years. I know. But you learn to cope somewhere along the line. I think I got better after I hit 40. But whats the saying better late than never.
Good hub thanks for sharing.