Recommendations for Building Self Confidence

 

Recommendations for Building Self Confidence - Liking yourself and doing things to please yourself does not mean that you are selfish. It does not mean that you are egoistic. What it means is that you can be a better Mother, Father friend, coworker, employee or spouse than someone who lacks confidence.

Here are our recommendations for boosting your self confidence:

Self Discovery

Self discovery will lead you to know about your self and accept it as it is.

You answer questions like:

1. Acknowledge accomplishments

Now prepare a list of positive achievements and personality characteristics. Forget the negatives and just concentrate on positives.

2. List your accomplishments till date.

3. List your positive characteristics 

4. Exhibit this list where you can read it daily

Prepare yourself

Your preparation will give you you knowledge, courage, control and strength to achieve your goals. Try to maintain your focus on what you want to do. Look ahead and keep your energy focused on the challenge.

1. Prepare yourself for achieving your goals 

2. Plan meticulously

Perform and Persist

Start action on your plan and keep doing it till you reach the goal. Achieving goals takes work and persistence. Do not stop midway and persist - that is the key.

Here are some Do’s and Don’ts

Don’ts

• Don’t change yourself to please others.
• Don’t compare yourself to or compete with others.
• Don’t let what happened yesterday affect what will happen tomorrow.
• Don’t personalise the failure. Look upon failure as one step toward growth.
• Don’t let your relationships become a hurdle. Sever ties which restrict you.

Dos

• Do maximize your strengths.
• Do believe in yourself.
• Do affirm yourself by replacing negative thoughts with positive ones.
• Do visualize your goals everyday and imagin yourself achieving them and think of the process of reaching them.
• Do Speak up, share your thoughts, opinions and preferences.
• Do reward yourself. Every time you pull through a challenging or negative experience, give yourself a treat.
• Do think of something something positive for yourself every morning.
• Do enjoy success. Evaluate yourself by what you have done, what you are doing, and what you can do.
• Do Keep a daily, weekly, or monthly record of your accomplishment and build on these. Each day do something a little better than yesterday.
• Do become an expert on something or some subject and share it with others.
• Do accept compliments positively. Say, “Thank you,” to those who offer praise about your appearance or ability.
• Do maintain your perspective.
• Do face each challenge with an open mind.
• Do develop strong relationships - those which help you achieve your goals.

Building self confidence will go a log way for you to be successful in your life. Following these small tips over a period of time will help you believe in yourself and reach your goals.

If you think you can - you will!

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