Tips for Improving Self-Confidence
Introduction
There are lots of ways to improve your self-confidence over the long-term – but sometimes you need an instant boost. You can’t walk into an important work meeting, whilst frantically re-reading a self-help manual, or making a last-minute phone call to your life-coach.
Tips for Improving Self-Confidence
SMILE MAKE EYE CONTACT CHANGE YOUR INNER VOICE FORGET OTHER PEOPLE’S STANDARDS LOOK YOUR BEST PRAY OR MEDITATE BRIEFLY REFRAME
SMILE
The one-second tip for when you’re feeling nervous and unconfident is simply to smile! You don’t just smile because you are happy and confident – you can smile to make yourself feel better. The act of smiling is so strongly associated with positive feelings that it’s almost impossible to feel bad while smiling.
MAKE EYE CONTACT
You’ll almost certainly get one back, and being smiled at is a great self-confidence boost. Like smiling, eye contact shows people that you’re confident. Staring at your shoes or at the table reinforces your feelings of self-doubt and shyness.
CHANGE YOUR INNER VOICE
Most of us have a critical inner voice that tells us we’re stupid, not good enough, that we’re too fat, thin, loud, quiet… Being able to change that inner voice is key to feeling self-confident on the inside, which will help you project your confidence to the world.
FORGET OTHER PEOPLE’S STANDARDS
Whatever the situation that’s causing you a crisis of selfconfidence, you can help yourself immeasurably by holding yourself to your own standards alone. Other people have different values from you, and however hard you try, you’ll never please everyone all of the time.
LOOK YOUR BEST
Even if you’ve only got a minute or two, duck into the bathroom to make sure you’re looking your best. Brushing your hair, giving your face a good wash, retouching your makeup, straightening your collar, checking you’ve not got a bit of parsley stuck between your teeth.
PRAY OR MEDITATE BRIEFLY ď ˝
If you believe in a higher power, whether God, or another spiritual force, it can be a real boost to self-confidence to say a silent prayer. This helps you to take a step back from your immediate situation, to see the wider picture and to seek help from something or someone greater than yourself.
REFRAME ď ˝
If something unexpected happens, it’s easy to let it knock your fledgling self-confidence. Perhaps you spill your drink on someone, you arrive late for the big meeting because of traffic problems, or someone who you wanted to speak to gives you a cold brush-off.
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