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How To Boost Your Self-Confidence

By Exforsys | on April 9, 2007 |
Self Confidence

How To Boost Your Self-Confidence

Anyone’s one failure in whatever one does can be attributed to the lack of self-confidence. A person who is confident enough about himself can conquer anything, achieve what he wants to within reason, and gain success in life.

Hence, it is very essential for everyone to once in awhile do a self-assessment and boost self-confidence in order to succeed in life. There are many ways of boosting self-confidence but the success or failure of these ways depends primarily on an individual’s motivation and determination to improve one’s life and status in life. The steps towards realizing a level of self-confidence enough for an individual to achieve his dreams and aspirations start from a self actualization of one’s weaknesses vis-à-vis the personal strengths. Once an individual decides to take that leap of faith, there should be no turning back, and the individual must be stead fast with his decision and start doing pertinent actions towards boosting self-confidence.

The first thing to do when one wants to boost self-confidence is to determine one’s goals and aspirations in life. This has to be specific enough and must be categorized into degree of achievement. Once the life goals and objective is determined, an individual must then do a self-assessment. Find out for himself his true personality or who he really is. No one succeeds in boosting his self-confidence if he doesn’t know himself. Determine one’s strengths and weaknesses and identify ways and means of overcoming weaknesses and further strengthening one’s strengths.

To help an individual in achieving his goal of boosting his self-confidence, one must seek out the help of friends and relatives, who can motivate, inspire, encourage and perhaps even reward him for his self-confidence boosting objectives. This is a very crucial ingredient of any plans on boosting one’s self confidence. No one can successfully measure one’s success in any things that he does but the people that are closer to him. Friends and relatives would be the most objective parameter for measuring one’s success or failure in any feat. And that is very applicable when one is boosting his self-confidence.

After seeking out the help of friends and relatives, an individual might find himself failing in his objectives and goals and might even think of giving up. But then, in moments of failure, the best thing to do is not to give up but to rest for awhile, back track a little and re-assess everything. Find faults and errors in what he has done, and then consider doing corrective actions to re-direct his path towards his goals.

In some instances of failure, it might be necessary for an individual to refocus himself or reducing his goals. For all he knows, he might have over assessed himself and included goals which are beyond his ability. An individual must focus first on mastering one aspects of his self-worth before doing other things. Nobody is a master of everything.

The key to achieving self-confidence lies on an individual’s capability to undermine his strengths and makes it inherent to him. Or when everything else fails, the best way to project self-confidence and later on achieving it, is to project that one is self-confident. If an individual has no knowledge of something, he should avoid projecting that he really doesn’t know anything about it. On the contrary, project that he knows about that thing and then start learning about it in the process. Sooner or later, he would not have to fake having the confidence on knowing something because in actuality, he really does know something about it. And the moment he knows something, he gains self-confidence about it.

In summary, boosting one’s self-confidence being the most common goal of every individual might be hard to accomplish or the ways to achieve it somewhat a little vague. But in reality, achieving self-confidence is actually an easy thing to do. And it should start from an individual’s desire and determination to improve on himself, to conquer his weaknesses and make those weaknesses among his strengths. The lack of self-confidence is a personal problem and its solution should start from the self. Actualize one’s self and he is certainly on his way towards having self-confidence.

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