Building Up Your Confidence Level And Improving On Yourself [Final Part]

We have been taking a look at the potent ways by which one can build up their confidence, which will correlate to also Improving on oneself. From our last episode, we established the fact that one has to have a good sense of dressing and of course, have love and value for themself, which will obviously make them more confident. Then finally, we talked about taking a few workouts and practices on how to speak in public to gain confidence. Note this, to build up your confidence, you have a part to play and the responsibility rests on you to play the part well. What you need to do:

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1. Stay away from negative thoughts and actions

What you think is oftentimes how your actions will be tilted towards. If you constantly think negativities, it will tell in your actions by making you tilt toward negativities and then it will lead to lack of confidence. For example, if you tell a lie among a group of people and the lie later got busted, and everyone within the group now remarks you for the lie, it will lead to lack of confidence each time you are in the midst of the group. Even if you have some truth to say, you will still lack the confidence to do so, because they will think it is just another lie. So stay way from negativities and ills.

To stay away from negativities, you have to identify them and then counter them with positivities. The truth is that talking negatively can affect one's self-confidence negatively, so you have to take caution with the words of your mouth. The more you talk positively, the more your mindset is built for positivity, and the more you act positively. So each time you feel the urge to make negative proclamations that may affect your confidence negatively, try to resist it. More so, you can only build confidence by building yourself positively through your words, thoughts, and actions.

2. Face what you fear the most

To build yourself and to increase your confidence level, you have to understand that you need to identify what you are scared of the most, because that may just be what is holding you back from actualizing your goal. Maybe you are scared of speaking in public, you need to identify it first in order to know how you can overcome it. After identifying what you fear the most, then you will allow yourself to become exposed to it constantly. The more you become exposed to what you fear the most, the more your anxiety towards it will be reduced, and the more you will feel comfortable around it.

The more you become comfortable around what you fear the most, because of identifying and becoming exposed to it, the more your confidence will tend to increase. For example, if you are scared of addressing people and you make an attempt to face your scares, as time goes on, you will realise that the more you talk in public, the more comfortable you will be to talk more. At the first attempt to face what you fear the most, it may not be easy, but keep going and it will become easier in the long run.

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3. Acquire new skills

You will be surprised that the more you invest in building up yourself, the more confident you become. For example, in the area of communication, many people do not know that it requires skills. When you have perfected your communication skills, you will not have difficulty in speaking confidently. Ways to acquire skills are inexhaustible and they include; reading books to gather more knowledge, taking relevant courses, watching educational videos, etc. All these will make you to acquire new skills and improve on the old one.

You will agree with me that when you are in the midst of people having an intelligent conversation in a particular topic that you know nothing about, you will lack the confidence to make contributions. But if the topic is the one you have read about or have extensive knowledge of, you will be making contributions confidently. So one of the ways in which one can improve on their confidence is to go for more skills.

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