Self-confidence is defined as a feeling of confidence in one’s abilities, qualities and judgment. Self-confidence is important to your health and
mental wellbeing.
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Healthy self-confidence can help you thrive in your personal and professional life. You must have heard about the phrase ”self-confidence”, but it’s not as cheap as we think it is. The absence of self-confidence can be damaging and harmful to an individual. In this article,
I highlight 6 ways to build your self-confidence.
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Avoid Self Comparison
This is where most of your low self-esteem stems from. Never compare yourself with others, whether in looks, income, status, possession etc. This attitude breeds envy and makes you blind to your own achievements, strengths and talents. When you spend time neglecting your uniqueness and drooling over someone’s, you are bound to lose your self-confidence.
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Get Into The Right Relationship
This is one of the ways to build your self-confidence – being in the right relationship, friendship and association. Study shows that people’s confidence are deeply affected by the relationship they keep. If you want to grow your confidence stick to the association that can add value to who you are and encourage you to be the best version of yourself. Hanging around positive-minded people can be contagious.
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Take Care of Your Body
Your health, your personal hygiene, and your general wellness go a long way in boosting your self-confidence. Prioritize your health by exercising your body daily. You can hit the gym on weekends or jog few distances. This has a way of taking away heaviness and burdens that weigh you down. It helps in the circulation of blood and the reduction of obesity, heart failure, poor thinking, fatigue, and poor metabolism. Consuming the right diet and avoiding consumption of toxic substances can help your body and mind get in the right shape.
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It is also expedient to maintain a high sense of personal hygiene. Take your bath and wash your mouth twice a day. Deal with body and mouth odour when you notice such, ensure you’re the first to know when you notice an unpleasant smell emanating from your body or mouth. Don’t let them point it out to you, and even if they point it out, work on it immediately. Always put on clean clothes, especially your inner wears such as singlets, bras, vests, pants and boxers. Avoid wearing inner wears twice. Use deodorants. This can eliminate low self-confidence sponsored by bad body or mouth odour.
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Treat Yourself Nice
How you treat yourself can affect your self-confidence. If you treat yourself negatively, if you fail to appreciate yourself or you do not see yourself in any good light, it affects your spirit negatively. You’ll always excuse yourself as a failure and treat yourself in self-pity. This can be very horrible for your image. Even when you fail or experience setbacks, you will always see yourself as incompetent or a serial failure. You’ll always see your weaknesses and not your strengths. By doing this, you’ll dampen your self-belief and you’ll always imagine the worst for yourself. However, if you practice self-love, self appreciation, self-celebration you’ll always bubble with self-confidence. Learn to speak well of yourself, no one can do that for you.
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Practice Positive Self-Affirmation
This has been the secret of top athletes, business leaders and successful people in general. This was the secret to the famous boxer, Muhammed Ali, who was known for practicing self-talk. He was always calling himself ”The best”. Most often, using scriptural quotes as self-affirmations have a way of strengthening your faith and quenching your doubt. Replace negative words like ”I can’t win” with ”I am born a winner.’ All you have to do is say several words of affirmations consistently and daily until they registers into your subconscious mind. Saying things repeatedly for a month or more can transform your life.
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Face Your Fears
Fear is at the heart of having poor self-confidence in ourselves. Fear is a major crippler of our self-confidence. Most times we imagine the worst, and most of what we fear might be untrue. Stop putting things off. Go for what you want – ask that person on a date, ask your employer for a promotion or a pay raise, or ask for help when you need one, try out that new business venture. Don’t die in silence, thinking of the worst when you haven’t actually tried. Don’t fail when you haven’t even set out. The worst that would happen to you is a no to your request. Get used to the fact that everyone – great or small – face rejections or make mistakes; it’s not peculiar to you, neither will you be an exception.
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This article was first published on 20th August 2021
nnaemeka-emmanuel
Nnaemeka is an academic scholar with a degree in History and International Studies from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He is also a creative writer, content creator, storyteller, and social analyst.
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