How To Build Your Self Confidence

Learn to accept yourself

The very first step is to accept yourself – lovingly. No person in the world is perfect so why bother and shed tears over your imperfectness. This is how God wanted us to be – Imperfect! We might have something that someone else may lack and someone else might be endowed with the qualities, which we lack. This incompleteness makes us go out and seek companions who make us feel loved, wanted and complete. Oh what a great feeling! Would we experience it if we were inside the cocoon of our perfection? Never! So accept yourself the way you are. It will free your mind of a heavy baggage of unnecessary worries. You will instantly feel light and cheerful.

Liberate yourself - Go out and do what you like!

How long has it been since you last went out to have a walk among the pines – something that you loved as a child? How long has it been since you walked hand in hand with your friend to the bakery and tossed a coin to decide what to buy? These might seem very simple things, but these simple things have the power to add up, to build great confidence and fulfilment.

Life is actually quite simple. What gets a bit too complex though is to remain simple. Just as small drops of water make the mighty ocean, the little things you enjoy doing have the capability to turn you into a storehouse of confidence.

When God made you, He put a desire in your heart and bestowed onto you the capability to achieve it. However, in the process of growing up, you forgot what exactly your purpose is, what it is that you liked and what you enjoyed doing. It does happen with lots of people who feel like breaking free but are too tied up in their day to day responsibilities that it gets impossible for them to spare even 10 minutes to reflect on their lives, their direction, their dreams and goals.

It's our duty to clear the mess that prevents us from hearing our heart. The conversations with your heart should keep getting clearer and the best way to do this is to find time to do what you enjoy. And since you enjoy doing that activity, it straight away means that you have all the aptitude and intelligence necessary to do the job effortlessly even though you may not realize it

Find your flock

Birds of a feather flock together. You must find people with whom you enjoy being around. They are certainly the people of your frequency and the energy flow between you and them is natural. Life becomes easy when you are among the people who are more or less on the same plane of thought as you and it's easier to relate to them. They seem to understand you and vice versa thus creating conditions for healthy conversations. A good conversation is a very healthy exercise and an important need of our mind. We all want our ideas to be heard and appreciated and good company provides this platform.

Set Achievable Goals and Go for it!

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The idea is to begin with a small single step that can then be further developed into giant strides. Learn to do the work at hand rather than to overwhelm oneself by looking at the entirety of a mammoth looking task. Just like the soil underneath your foot, the top of the mountain will also be under your step someday. The only way to do something is to Go For It! No matter how small the progress is the focus should be on completing a task successfully even though it's a small task. A series of big completed tasks is a sure shot way to depression. Break a big task into a list of small tasks to be completed. Tick off from your list each job successfully completed. A completed task no matter how small it is gives a sense of achievement that boosts our confidence and equips us with more energy to try a bigger task.