Consider These 5 Techniques For Building Self-Confidence

Do you normally hop out of bed in the morning in a great mood, ready to take on the day? Now, what about the opposite? Do you find yourself stressed or anxious most of the time, living your daily life in a state of depression where everything seems to go wrong? Not such a great feeling, huh? Did you know that your state of mind directly impacts your mood?

When you’re feeling down, for whatever reason, your confidence will also plummet. However, if you're an overall jovial person full of love, happiness, and gratitude you’ll be just fine as a positive mindset can most often conquer negativity.

When you have a positive mind, you feel full of self-confidence and your self-esteem is great too. You’ll find yourself navigating your day-to-day life with purpose and self-confidence.

About Self Confidence

Self-confidence is characterized as a sense of trust in your qualities, judgments, and abilities. Not everyone knows, but self-confidence is essential to your psychological well-being as well as your overall health. Self-confidence has the ability to help you gain success in your professional and personal life.

What Are the Benefits of Self-Confidence?

As mentioned earlier, self-confidence can help determine your success, but there are also many other benefits to having self-confidence. Whether at work or home, confidence can also affect your relationships. Some positive benefits of self-confidence include:

• Perform Better: Instead of spending time distressing about being good enough, use that energy positively which will allow you to succeed, which normally accompanies confidence.

• Healthy Relationships: Self-confidence affects your feelings about yourself, as well as helping you to better understand others. Confidence can also provide you with the strength needed to walk away when you feel that your value is not being appreciated.

• Be Open-Minded: Ever recognize how you’re inclined to attempt new concepts when you’re self-confident in yourself and your individual abilities?

• Resilience: If you don’t believe in yourself, how can you expect others to, right? When you believe in yourself, you improve your resilience, giving you the ability to rebound when faced with adversaries and challenges that life may present.

But, as luck would have it, there are ways that you can bolster your self-confidence, regardless of what areas are causing your confidence dilemma. Woo-hoo! Consider the following techniques for a confidence boost.

1. Refrain From Comparisons

It doesn’t matter if you compare your friend's outfit to yours, or who gets paid the most. Stop it! It’s not healthy, and you’re not living a 24/7 contest. In 2018, a Personality and Individual Differences study performed found a direct link involving envy and how you feel about yourself.

Scientists have even found that when you compare yourself to someone else, it creates a feeling of envy within you. You have your own unique features that no one else has, and envy isn’t one of them.

Consider starting a gratitude journal. This will assist you in focusing and appreciating what you have accomplished in your life rather than focusing on other people's lives.

2. Surround Yourself With Positive People

Take note of how you feel when you’re around your friends. Do you feel happy and uplifted, or do you find that you feel more drained than satisfied around certain friends? Are your friends judgmental towards you, or do they accept everything about you just as you are, flaws and all?

Be sure to only envelope yourself with people who genuinely love you and have your best interest at heart.

3. Take Care of Your Body

If you haven’t been very nice to your body, it can be hard to feel good about yourself. When you don’t feel good about yourself, it can take a toll on your self-confidence. When you feel down about how you look, consider practicing self-care.

This will have a positive effect on your mind, your spirit, and your body, allowing you to organically feel more confident and positive.

Consider these self-care techniques that have been proven to enhance your self-confidence:

• Diet: When you supply your body with the proper foods and nutrients, you just feel better; healthier, more energized, and more confident, because you feel better about “you”.

Think of all the benefits you gain from simply eating properly - not to mention what it will do for your self-esteem and self-confidence.

• Exercise: Studies show that movement can boost your confidence. According to a 2016 study, routine exercise positively improved the participants’ body image, which caused them to feel more confident in themselves.

• Meditation: Meditation can enhance your self-confidence in various ways. it helps you with insight to realize your worth and accept yourself as you are. Through meditation, you can also learn how to quit negative self-talk and mental chitchat that can disrupt your self-confidence.

• Sleep: Do not take sleep for granted, as a lack of proper rest can affect your mood and emotions. When your mood is negative, your self-confidence is likely in a negative way as well.

4. Be Kind To Yourself

Do you feel down about yourself or beat yourself up when you make a mistake or fail at something? Setbacks happen to everyone, and it doesn’t mean that you’re less than or a failure.

Show yourself some self-compassion by being kind to yourself whenever you experience a mishap.

This will allow you more emotional flexibility to better navigate through your emotional challenges to improve your connection to others as well as yourself. A study in 2009 found that self-compassion leads to greater self-confidence in yourself.

5. Practice Positive Self-Talk

Practice using positive self-talk, as this will help you feel more optimistic while conquering self-doubt. This will also help you when new challenges arise. Remember, to counter any negative “it’s too hard” or “I can’t do it” negative self-talk with positive self-talk, “I can do it” or “I deserve this”.