Positive thinking, practice, training, knowledge and talking to other people are all useful ways to help improve or boost your confidence levels. Confidence comes from feelings of well-being, acceptance of your body and mind (your self-esteem) and belief in your own ability, skills and experience.
The way I see it, trusting in the context of confidence is a spiritual practice with three key components: surrender, willingness to show up fully on a consistent basis and do the work, and accepting the invitation to not be great… yet!
Confidence is built on accomplishment. If you achieve small and big goals, you're going to feel much better about yourself. It begins with your day-to-day goals, what do you need to accomplish today, and every day this week or three days this week to help meet your goal?
This may lead to low self-esteem and negative thoughts about their self-worth. Performing poorly at school or being bullied can also cause low self-esteem. Stressful life events, such as an unhappy relationship, a bereavement or serious illness, may also cause low self-esteem.
The first step of building your self-confidence is being intentional about building it. Being intentional means arranging your focus and concentration on something meaningful to you. If you want to be intentional, you need to know what you want to achieve and then take action to achieve it.
Unhappy childhood where parents (or other significant people such as teachers) were extremely critical. Poor academic performance in school resulting in a lack of confidence. Ongoing stressful life event such as relationship breakdown or financial trouble.
The first secret of success: Believe in Yourself. Nothing changes in your life until you believe you can do things that are important to you. And if you have a low opinion of yourself, nobody else is likely to raise it.
One of the first steps to backing yourself is to identify your strengths and weaknesses. Take some time to reflect on what you're good at and what areas you could improve in. This will help you focus on your strengths and build your confidence, while also giving you a roadmap for personal growth and development.
We have identified seven types of confidence: respect, vision, track record, openness, authenticity, consistency, and simplicity. Does every leader need all of these in order to create confidence? Absolutely not. Each of these types of confidence is strong and valid: each 'works'.
When you're feeling the pressure and starting to lose your composure you may like to practice these techniques regularly so that they become second nature.
Most researchers agree that we can influence our self-esteem, and Nathaniel Branden suggests six practices that form our self-esteem: living consciously, self-acceptance, self-responsibility, self-assertiveness, living purposefully, and personal integrity.
The big five personality factor's Scale is comprised of 50 items scale and five subscales: extraversion versus introversion, agreeableness versus antagonism, conscientiousness versus lack of direction, openness versus closeness to experience and neuroticism versus emotion stability.
