By Ahsan
If you walk around with the thought that you are not good enough, you will never truly enjoy your life, let alone do well at the things you are trying to achieve.
The more self-confidence you have, the more self-confident you will be. It is a positive loop that grows ever bigger and stronger with time.
Harbouring doubts and fears will destroy your self-confidence, which must be a virus against which you inoculate yourself. Period!
Developing self-confidence is a gradual process that involves both mindset and behaviour.
Here are a few ways to enhance your self-confidence:
Set Challenges For Yourself
Do challenging things, and if those include goals, make them challenging goals.
I can easily floss my teeth every night. This may make me a dental hygiene winner, but it is not the kind of challenge I think will matter much.
Instead, let’s say you find yourself sedentary and getting lazier and unhealthy: challenge yourself to walk in the morning before going to work. Even if it's dark outside, cold, wet and windy. That's the kind of challenge that will build your self-confidence.
As you achieve these goals, gradually challenge yourself with more audacious challenges.
Engage Only In Positive Self-Talk
Use positive affirmations instead of negative self-chats. You are doing the talking, so control what you say to yourself.
Start saying, "I know I can," just like the little choo-choo train, instead of, "I think I can." Encourage yourself. No one else needs to do it.
Put out the garbage of self-limiting beliefs and visualize them in a bag the garbage collector throws into the back of the garbage truck. That is their value, and that is where they belong.
Picture this as vividly as you can. Heave ho!
Develop Awareness Of Your Thinking
Your mental approach to life should be more of I am a diamond in the rough than I am a piece of coal.
So, if an intruding thought comes into your mind, cancel it with the phrase, "I am a diamond in the rough." or “I’m a work in progress and greatness in the making!”
Dedicate time to thinking about your thinking. Your life is a reflection of your thinking. What you think translates into what you feel and the results you get.
Be a thinker who is self-aware of what you are thinking.
And here is a next-level secret tip:
Pray for success because God helps those who help themselves.
Dear friends, if I have convinced you that self-confidence is essential to living a more joyful life, do me a favour and share this article with your friends. They might say thanks to both of us.
Building self-confidence is an inside job. You have to do it. Be patient, but not surprised if your self-confidence skyrockets day by day.
Keep polishing yourself and celebrate the small victories along the way.
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