Changing Your Beliefs

5 Tips to Increase Your Self Confidence

I think many of us could do with more self confidence. Self confidence means different things to different people. To me self confidence is the ability to go after what you want in life. What does self confidence mean to you?

Once you’ve defined self confidence for yourself, here are 5 tips to increase your self confidence…

1.    Realise the truth
I think a big contributing factor for having low self confidence is the things you may have heard others say about you in the past. You may have been programmed to believe you are no good or worthless. This is not true at all - it is simply someone’s opinion of you.

2.    Be comfortable with being judged
Basically everyone judges everybody else. You cannot control what others think of you. But you can decide you are not going to be bothered by what others say. What others say is to do with them - not you. Be comfortable with others criticising you.

3.    Ignore Your Past
Whatever happened in your past is gone. Instead of beating yourself up on what could have or should have been, concentrate on what you are doing now. You do have control in the present moment.

4.    Take Action
Slowly but surely begin changing what you don’t like about yourself. The more things you change about yourself, the more your self confidence will grow.

5.    Compare yourself only to yourself
There is no purpose in comparing yourself to others. It takes patience to develop yourself. As you change over time, you will see the remarkable change in yourself. Perhaps you would like to keep a journal?