A Foolproof Plan to Boost Your Confidence

Posted on June 30, 2018 by SPT-Techgirl66

A Foolproof Plan to Boost Your Confidence

Do you feel like you could benefit from strengthening your confidence?

While it’s not 100% imperative to have confidence, it certainly makes life a lot easier.

You can still accomplish things without self-confidence, but would you actually try? If you don’t believe you’re going to be successful, you’ll likely throw in the towel before getting very far. Confidence can be elusive as our success ebbs and wanes.

How can you maintain your confidence through the ups and downs of life?

Try these tips. They’ll raise your self-confidence through the roof:

Know thyself. Make a list of all of your strengths and capabilities. Include things that you seem to have a talent for but have never actually tried. Perhaps you’re reliable, intelligent, coordinated, and have excellent musical abilities.
- Putting your positive qualities on paper will show you the many reasons you have to be self-confident. You’re already doing better than you think.
List your major achievements. Think about all the amazing things you’ve already accomplished. We tend to mentally linger on our perceived failures. Try lingering on the good stuff for a change. We can choose our thoughts, so choose wisely.
Make a list of your daily accomplishments. At the end of each day, make a list of all the things you accomplished.
- Maybe you remembered to take the trash to the curb, pay all your bills on time, exercised for 30 minutes, and helped your child fix her bike.
- It might sound trivial, but each of these little things matter.
Learn how to motivate yourself. Real, justified confidence comes from the ability to achieve goals. Achieving goals largely comes from the ability to stay motivated.
- We all know it’s easier to put things off, procrastinate, and invent excuses for not applying ourselves.
- Set yourself up to be successful each day. Come up with a few daily activities that will improve your life and also provide a sense of accomplishment.
- For example, you might decide to read a certain number of pages in a book each night or exercise for 45 minutes each morning.
- Stick with your plan and you’ll begin to trust yourself to follow through.
Take good care of yourself. Looking and feeling your best can contribute to your self-confidence. Take the time to stay healthy and fit. Dress well and practice good grooming habits.
- If you take good care of yourself, you’ll start to believe you deserve it. And others will believe you deserve it, too. That’s great for your confidence level!
Set goals to boost your confidence. Setting goals is important. It allows you to see what areas of your life require the most confidence. If you have the goal of finding your perfect life partner, you might require more confidence than when it comes to introducing yourself to others.
Challenge your mind on a regular basis. Continue learning new things and keep your mind sharp. Everyone around you will find you interesting.
- Consider reading, doing brain puzzles, staying on top of current events, improving your vocabulary, and playing games that require a lot of thought.
Work at it every day. Work to complete these simple steps continuously. Strive to better yourself in all of these areas each day.
- Self-confidence is not a one-time event. It has to be cultivated over time. Growing your self-confidence is not much different from growing vegetables in a garden.

Having a high level of confidence makes life so much more enjoyable. By executing a simple action plan, increasing your confidence can be fun and interesting.

Consider drawing up your own personalized self-confidence action plan. It can be incredibly rewarding. By taking charge of your life, you’ll boost your confidence even higher.1.

7 Steps to Social Confidence

Posted on June 23, 2018 by SPT-Techgirl66

7 Steps to Social Confidence

Depending on your natural personality type and your social experiences as a child, you might be the most socially confident person you know or the least. Of course, most of us fall somewhere in the middle. However, there’s always room for improvement, regardless of your current skills and expertise.

Your ability to interact with others impacts your self-concept, career, social life, and personal life.

Life is more fun and a lot easier if you feel confident around others. The skills that make this possible are well-known but can be uncomfortable to develop. There’s no reason not to greatly increase your abilities if you’re willing to be a little bold.

Follow these steps to build your confidence around others:

Talk to a lot of people. You become more comfortable with something when you do it a lot. Most confidence issues are based on fear. By talking to a lot of people, you’ll show yourself that there’s nothing to be afraid of. Fortunately, there are people everywhere.
- Consider getting a part-time job that involves speaking to people. You could be a waiter, salesperson, customer service rep or any other job that requires interacting with others. You’ll earn some extra money, too.
- Schedule your social life. Be sure you have a few hours of social activity planned into your life each week. Get out of the house and have a little fun with others.
Study confident, powerful characters in movies. Look at movies with strong characters and note how they stand, move, and use eye contact. What is it that makes them appear so in control and formidable? Which movie character do you wish you could be like? Study them.
Have controlled emotional reactions. Think of James Bond. You could tell him he has mustard on his shirt and a satellite was about to fall on the building. He would smirk at you, say something funny, and then take another bite of his hotdog before taking any action. The most confident people underreact.
Maintain confident eye contact. Look everyone in the eye with great confidence. You’re not in a staring contest, but you can’t lower your eyes in deference if you want to be viewed as a powerful person. Practice your eye contact with everyone that crosses your path.
Stand tall. Slouching and appearing smaller than you really are has no place in your life. Imagine you were the president of the United States and were walking among your greatest supporters. How would you stand?
- Try to maintain that same posture whether you’re addressing the masses or taking your trash cans to the curb.
Create social opportunities. There are many ways you can make yourself the center of attention.
- Have a party.
- Start a meetup group.
- Become a “guest speaker” in a Facebook Live group
- Inform your peers of one of your goals, such as losing weight.
- Attend networking events.
- Get a group of people together to go out to the movies or to dinner.
- Get some friends together a group chat
Expect success. Remind yourself of your successful social interactions in the past. Visualize success in the future. Have high expectations for interactions in all social situations.

Imagine entering a room full of strangers and boldly speaking with the most attractive or influential person there. The world would truly be your oyster. That confidence would overflow into other parts of your life.

The skills of confident and effective communicators are widely known and available to all. Get a handle on this important part of your life. Your life will never be the same.

11 Tips If You Struggle With Self Love

Posted on June 16, 2018 by SPT-Techgirl66

11 Tips if You Struggle With Self-Love

How can you be happy if you don’t love yourself? Having a high degree of self-love makes it easier to take good care of yourself. If you love and respect yourself, others are more likely to respect you, too. When you love yourself, you’re more gentle, kind, and considerate with yourself.

Life can be hard. It’s even harder when you’re hard on yourself. Ideally, you are your biggest fan in life.

Use these ideas to show yourself more love:

Make sleep a priority. Everybody needs sleep. When we don’t think very highly of ourselves, we often don’t get enough sleep. It’s easy for all the things and people in our lives to get our time and attention. This leaves too little time for sufficient sleep.
Feed your body better food. If you don’t love yourself, you might not be eating as well as you should be. Show yourself that you’re a priority by giving yourself healthy food to eat.
Feed your mind better things, too. It’s not just your body. It’s your mind, too. Consider the thoughts, TV, and websites that you’re giving your mind to chew on. Are you spending your time the way you would want your 18-year-old child to spend his time?
Exercise. Taking care of your body with exercise is a sign of self-love. You don’t have to train for a triathlon but get some exercise each day.
Look your best. When people aren’t happy with themselves, their general appearance is one of the first things to slide. Give yourself the attention you need to look your best each day. Be the best-dressed and best-groomed person in the room wherever you go.
Make time to relax. Rest and relaxation are critical to enjoying life. Schedule time into your day to kick back and do whatever you enjoy.
Forgive yourself. It’s pretty tough to love yourself if you haven’t forgiven yourself for your past mistakes and failures. There’s nothing you can do about the past, so it only makes sense to let it go and forgive yourself. The things that happened in the past are best left there.
List your best qualities. Those lacking in self-love can quickly rattle off their shortcomings but struggle to identify their positive characteristics. Remind yourself of all the amazing qualities you have. Write down your positive qualities, even if they’re only slightly positive. List them all.
List your greatest triumphs. You’ve done some amazing things. Put pen to paper and write them all down. Go back to the beginning and relive your better moments.
Separate from those that don’t treat you well. If someone in your life is a regular detractor, consider giving them their walking papers. There are so many people in the world that it doesn’t make sense to put up with someone that doesn’t treat you well.
Start making the changes you’ve been avoiding. You have a good idea of the changes you’d like to make in your life. Let today to be the day you start implementing a few of those ideas.

If you can’t love yourself, who else will, other than your mother? Treat yourself like you matter, and you’ll begin to believe that you do. Our beliefs can be led by our actions. We can change our beliefs to justify our behaviors. Put your attention on your strengths and successes. Take care of your mind and body.

You’re the only person you have 24/7. Everyone else is available on a limited basis. So, make yourself a priority in your life. You’ll be glad you did!