Confidence is the feeling that one can rely and trust on someone or something. Today actually, we will be talking about confidence in ourselves. We sure do have several friends who are straight up confident in themselves that sometimes it feels like they are being cocky and we have friends who seem to have their confidence striving below the expected level.
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Confidence is one of the best feelings about oneself anyone can have. You are certain in yourself about what you can do and how you are accepted in your clique. Confidence can even mask the baseless of men and make him look like a really sensible person.
You would agree with me that confidence has a lot to play in almost anything in our world right now. Guys need confidence to approach girls, people need confidence to face job interviews. Salespersons need confidence to make sales, shy people need confidence to face crowds, people need confidence to market their skills and business. Confidence might determine how well what you do is received or perceived since your confidence in yourself oozes more than the smell of your cologne or fragrance.
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Unfortunately, just like everyone isn’t born with silver spoons in their mouths, everyone isn’t born with inbuilt confidence. We have people who feel good about themselves by default, these people ooze confidence to the max in the way they act, walk and interact with people. For the unlucky one who weren’t born with confidence, there are a few tips to help raise your confidence levels.
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* **Have a positive mindset of yourself.**
Feeling good and being comfortable in your skin is one of the first thing to get used to. Your confidence level will suffer if you still feel you are not good enough. Come to terms with the fact that you are not good enough and development is a gradual process and get comfortable with yourself. You might not be the brightest in school, or the most beautiful of the best person for the job but that shouldn’t affect the way you feel about yourself. If you feel good about yourself, all these things have noting on you.
Do things that makes you feel more human.
One of the bests ways to feel that cord of humanity in yourself id by helping others. You will be amazed at how helping people can serve as a huge boost on your confidence. You feel better about yourself with the feeling that you are doing something good and noble by helping others. It need not be anything material, you might smile more to people, encourage kids and make random babies laugh when you come across them.
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* **Hit the Gym.**
A good physique is like a confidence pill. From experience, people who have taken working out as a hobby had a boost in their confidence level. You know you look good with your wide chest, flat tummy, round butts and toned muscles, you’ll definitely strut about the street like a peacock. Agreed ….. Girls who do squats and have toned butts and flat tummies feel good about themselves and its obvious the way they hold their heads up high proudly. So, hit the gym……… aside from the confidence boost, it is also very healthy.
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* **Read wide or study wide.**
By reading wide, you might be able to hold conversations on any topic whatsoever. Knowing you have an idea on almost every topic helps you to converse more with strangers and even people you know cutting across diverse topics of interest in animated chats. Now this is a good boost. You can approach people better without fear of running out of topics
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* **Do away with bullies.**
One of the harsh realities of life we all discovered probably as early as age 6 to 9 is that, you will always have a bully with over inflated confidence in him or herself bully you. (That’s if you are not the bully haha.) The people pick so easily on others and this acts as a great drain on confidence because this actually makes the victims feel inferior and inferiority complex is the bane of confidence. Try to avoid places where you get bullied or better still, face the bullies head on and demand that they stop and fight for yourself. You need to be confident in yourself and that’s what you are doing. Picture this, A lion is pursuing an impala when the small impala suddenly turns against the lion and charges to it. The lion is sure to be stunned and might probably stop in its pursuit.
However, there is a thin line between confidence and over-confidence. Confidence doesn’t mean you should feel like you are way better than others. Its about being able to trust yourself and what you do not to disappoint. It’s a bout feeling good about yourself and. That’s confidence. Do try out those tips and enjoy your new found confidence.
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Written by @stephennevets, Edited and posted by @camzy
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all images used were gotten from [PIXABAY](pixabay.com)
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