Confidence can have a huge impact on your everyday life. It shines through when you walk in the door to a room full of strangers, it shows in the way you smile, and the way you carry yourself, in general. You know just how attractive it can be in other people, though, so why not try to work a bit on your own confidence this year?
It will make you feel a lot better about yourself and have a massive impact on your relationship with other people as well as your ability to make new friends. Confidence will, in short, color every aspect of your life and you’ll be so much happier to be you.
Here is a quick guide to how you can start to work on yourself right away so that you can wake up tomorrow, feeling a lot better in your own skin.
First: Change the stories you tell yourself
Our past will definitely influence our future when we allow it to. Every little insecure comment you ever made and the social mistakes you made, which never really mattered, have a nasty tendency to repeat themselves in our heads – and we end up listening to them, thinking about them, worrying about them.
Luckily, it doesn’t have to be like this and you can easily change the stories you’re telling yourself in your head. Simply telling yourself that you’re a strong, independent person won’t really help, though, as it’s kind of the same feeling you got when your mom told you you’re pretty; it’s sweet, and all that, but you don’t really believe it.
The best way to beat that insecurity is to prove it to yourself. Do something daring each day, talk to strangers, and work your way up to acting like the confident person you’d like to be. Before you know it, that sense of awkwardness will be completely overshadowed by all the new and brave things you’ve been doing lately – and you can’t help but to believe in yourself.
Next: Be honest with yourself
Sure, fake it until you make it is a tried-and-tested method that often works. The idea, however, is to create a pattern of behavior until you get used to it – just like in the tip above. You will still need to be honest with yourself, though, and take your own concerns seriously.
When you have something that you’re truly unhappy about with your appearance like your weight, for example, it doesn’t help much to act like you’re the slimmest and most active person in the room; if the pants won’t fit, they simply won’t fit and you need to approach your problems head-first.
This will also have a huge impact in terms of how much you trust yourself and how honest you’re able to be. Visit a popular aesthetic clinic, get your gym routine back under control, and start to take better care of your health. While all body shapes and smiles are beautiful, they’re really only beautiful when they’re healthy – and telling yourself anything else won’t help much at all.
If you manage to get this done, you’re going to feel like a brand new and much better person by the end of the year and it will have a big influence in terms of your wellbeing, in general, as well as your overall confidence.
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