Here are some tips and tricks I've picked up along the way. Plus a few things I'm still trying to get myself to do/believe. My hope is that this helps you unleash that inner BOSS! One thing I know for sure: confidence is a journey, not a destination.
Enjoy!
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1. Find a fun way to workout. Endorphins are nature’s happy
pill
2. Talk to a good friend. No frenemies allowed!
3. Identify your favorite physical feature and accentuate
it.
4. Buy a new outfit that looks fabulous on you.
5. Create or re-work your budget. Being in control of your
finances increases confidence!
6. Set a
SMART goal for yourself and work toward it.
7. Put a few affirmations on sticky notes wherever you will
see them often.
8. Try a new hairstyle.
9. Practice the discipline of daily gratitude.
10. Pray, meditate, or reflect often.
11. Focus your thoughts on your positive
attributes/qualities/skills. Replace negative thoughts instantly with positive
ones.
12. Learn a new hobby.
13. Volunteer! Getting outside of your own problems to help
others builds confidence.
14. Create something. A song, a painting, a letter, a
craft…whatever it may be.
15. Incorporate healthy foods into your diet. Doing good
things for your body will help you feel better about YOU!
16. Experiment with color. Paint a wall, wear a scarf, try
that lipstick!
17. Give yourself a break. If you wouldn’t say it to your
best friend don’t say it to yourself.
18. Genuinely compliment someone else.
19. Identify your core values. Are the things you do daily in
line with those values? Make necessary changes.
20. Take a class in your area of interest.
21. Meet new people! Join a club or go to a mixer. Just get
creative!
22. This should’ve been first on the list! You MUST believe
you can actually attain more confidence.
23. Learn to say ‘No’
24. Try to take more risks. Do that thing you’ve always
wanted to do but were too afraid.
25. Conquer your To-Do list! Cross off one task at a time.
26. Stop comparing yourself to other people. You can be the
best version of yourself; no one else will ever beat you at that!
27. Make a list of things of things you’ve done/accomplished
that you are proud of. It can be as small as ‘being awesome at taking care
of your pup’ to ‘winning the Nobel
prize…twice’
28. Find value in yourself, first and foremost. Not your
job, not your relationships and not your net-worth.
29. Clean up your space! Disorganization and excess clutter
disrupt your inner peace.
30. Don’t be too afraid to seek counsel or aid when you need
it.
31. Stop focusing on the things you don’t like about your
life. Change your mindset and you will be able to see the beauty all around
you.
32. Receive criticism with an open but discerning mind. Sift
through it to find any truth, throw out the rest, make changes if necessary and
move on.
33. Release guilt over mistakes and missed opportunities in
the past. As long as you are breathing you will mess up, the key is to learn
from the messy and keep
growing.
34. Know that building self-esteem is a process that takes
lots of little steps over time.
35. Learn to love, respect and trust yourself.
36. Read books about confidence, taking risks and achieving
dreams.
37. Put yourself out there! Share your opinions and passions
with others.
38. Cultivate increased generosity in your life.
39. Realize that everyone else is too busy worrying about
their own hair/clothes/impressions/flaws to be thinking about yours.
40. Relax. Unplug. Just BE.
41. Do what makes you happy!
42. Eliminate any negative or abusive relationships from
your life completely and immediately.
43. Fill your life with positive, encouraging and loving
relationships.
44. Don’t play the victim. Accept that you are in control of
your life.
45. Adopt a ZERO-tolerance policy for any negative
self-talk.
46. Begin to accept things that are beyond your control. Eventually
embrace those things.
47. Remember that good ‘ol advice “Fake it 'till you make it”.
Even if you don’t feeeel confident today, behave like the you who is
confident.
48. Practice good posture. Slumped shoulders and a lowered head
convey self-doubt and unimportance to other people as well as to your own
brain!
49. Let your hair down and have some fun!
50. BE YOURSELF. ALWAYS.
-Love, S
