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Building Confidence

Confidence springs from feelings of well-being, self-esteem, and believing in your own experience, skills, and ability. It’s not something one can be taught the same as a set of rules. However, positive thinking, talking to confident people, practice, knowledge, and training are useful ways to boost your confidence levels.

People credit their confidence and sense of self to their success. They go to greater lengths to define their achievements, but few will tell you how to become confident. The reason is that aside from success, confidence is built on accomplishments and choices that feed your passion. These are what make people proud and happy about who they are.

Since confidence is one of the attributes that the majority of people would like to possess, this article will review ways of building your confidence when it comes to accomplishing your goals and being successful.

Engage in Activities that Makes You Happy

How do you spend your spare time? Is it walking, joking, hiking, playing online games, lying on your couch, and watching a movie or your favorite TV program? Whatever it is that you love to do in your free time, always create space for it. These are things that will enrich your life and re-energize you and reveal your best self.

Complete What You Start

As mentioned above, your confidence will grow when you accomplish your goals. That means you should set small goals and achieve them before moving to bigger ones. Feeling good about yourself starts by fulfilling your daily goals, then weekly and monthly ones, and the trend continues.

Further, progress is incremental, and so big successes don’t happen overnight. Starting small will build your confidence, and in the end, you will be able to set ambitious ones because you’re confident that you will meet them.

Be Courageous

How do you perceive failure? Do you see it like an enemy or friend? Actually, failure shouldn’t be an enemy, and neither should you allow it to cripple you. Always remember that there are people that think you can’t accomplish your goals, and so when you set them, you must gather each ounce of courage to keep going no matter how big your goals or dreams are.

Always remember that every successful person at one time or the other was afraid; however, they kept working, taking risks as they try to accomplish their goals. Likewise, you have to put the fear of failure aside and imagine how your success will do to your self-esteem and confidence.

Accomplishing your goal, no matter big it was, will prove to many that you’re capable, and it will also give you the confidence to keep on pushing forward.

Build Your Value System

Confident people make decisions and live by their value system even though at times it might be hard and not in their best interest but that of the greater good. It’s important to realize that your decisions and actions define your character.

You will need to make short-term sacrifices to achieve your goals, and in the end, you will love yourself, feel proud of yourself, and your confidence will touch the roof.

Don’t Concentrate on What Others Think

The majority think that you can’t accomplish your goal, and that is why you get a rejection from school, employment, or simply negative feedback from family and friends. Actually, they think your dreams are way too big for you, others believe you are not ready, can’t do it, or what you’re attempting has not been done before, and more. Imagine what listening to these views will do to your confidence.

It’s important to remember that people are changing the world daily with their creativity and innovations, yet someone is sitting somewhere thinks that you can’t do it. Realize that many people are wrong about most things, and if others can do it, so can you. So believe in yourself, don’t listen to what others think, and keep going.

Fight for What You Believe

Don’t believe it when someone says your project or goal is stupid or you can never accomplish it. Accepting their viewpoint will create doubts inside your head, and you will start to think like them. Instead, you must avoid joining their chorus of doubts and tell them as well as yourself that you’re right and believe in yourself, as well as your goals, and you’re going to accomplish them.

Actually, you shouldn’t let anyone ever make you feel or believe that you don’t deserve what you want. Accepting other people’s opinions will only kill the little confidence you had when setting your goals. Therefore, stand up for yourself.

Follow Through

Saying that you will do something and actually do it will make people respect you, and you do so as well. Following through makes you unafraid of accomplishing your work, and most importantly, believing in yourself becomes easier.

Since actions give words meaning, doing what you plan to do will create a path for accomplishing your goals, building your relationships, and making you proud of yourself, which is an ingredient of building confidence.

Seek Long-term Happiness

Some people set short-term goals because they want immediate comfort, which leads to unhappiness and stalls their long-term goals. For example, the goal of losing weight. How can you shed some pounds when French fries, cookies, cakes, and soft drinks are what you eat so often?

It’s important to realize that all major goals require big sacrifices, discipline, and commitment. However, it’s frustrating and tedious in the first few days, but in the end, it will pay off, and you will be thrilled and confident. So when setting your goals, you need to be realistic and aware that short-term comfort or gratification will crush your confidence because it hinders your long-term goals that can bring far more happiness.

In summary, you can build your confidence by starting small, setting short-term goals that you can accomplish the same day, then weekly and monthly. Because many people believe that you can’t do it doesn’t mean that you can’t. Most people are wrong about some things and since there are millions of people out there accomplishing their goals means that you too can if you believe in yourself.

Also, viewing failure as an enemy will smash your confidence but instead learn from it, adjust or replace your goals and proceed.

Kossi Adzo is the editor and author of Startup.info. He is software engineer. Innovation, Businesses and companies are his passion. He filled several patents in IT & Communication technologies. He manages the technical operations at Startup.info.

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