Ten (10) Ways to Becoming a More Confident Person

In the pursuit of success or in striving to become a better entrepreneur, as well as in contract negotiation and decision making, we all need that assuring atmosphere that should permeate what we do and wherever we do it. Everyone of us have two lives: The life we live and the one we desire to live but cannot do because of low self-esteem, doubts and fears within and without. The fact is, if we ever anticipate living that life that we dream and be more confident, then there is good news for you because like any other skill, confidence can be acquired, developed and used as such to the fullest.

If left undeveloped, poor self confidence can make take away your passion and personality, making you to do less of what you would have done, marring your progress match to achieving your goals in life. There are three myths about confidence which you will be surprised to know now that they are wrong. The first one is the notion that "Seeing confidence as something that one is born with", "Thinking that you would been more confident if you knew you would succeed" and "Saying to yourself that once is gone it's gone forever". All of these above myths are wrong because confidence is something that we all can learn just like any other skill or thing. Secondly, you will never know unless you have tried and embraced the excitement of uncertainties.

Here are the ten (10) ways you can actually develop your confidence:

1. Leading With Your Strengths: Focusing on what you are good at and doing it at your best levels will help you to build your confidence. This is because reminding yourself of your past successes will keep you engaged and self-assured that you can do it and even better.
2. Monitoring Your Success: Start your day by making an achievable to-do list and then ticking off all that you have done over time. This will help you to see how much you have achieved for the day. This will help you to inhale confidence daily while exhaling doubt and distrust at the same time.
3. Talking to Different People: You gotta talk to different people not your friendly friends or colleagues alone! Strike up a conversation as you go off at the parking lot or while paying the cashier at the cafe or restaurant or grocery. The more you do this, the better you will see that there is nothing to fear about others in life.
4. Trying Something New Often: Get involve by connecting with groups or communities of people or businesses and this you can do by going online and participating in discussions, making comments and relating your experiences when it is right to do so. In doing this you are developing that self-confident person that you like to be over time. As Muhammad Ali rightly puts it, "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will not accomplish anything in life".
5. Becoming More Spontaneous: You have got to do certain things deliberately such as leaving your comfort zones and getting involve with events and activities which exposes you to a more social lifestyle. You have to do it gradually so that you don't get hurt and withdraw. Talk to friends of friends and colleagues, those you may be meeting even for the very first time in your life. Charles, in the above quotes, says of confidence: "Confidence is contagious, catch it and spread it", and by socializing you would be growing in it.
6. Focusing on Your Gestures:This is another aspect that you will have to deliberately do things such as smiling, keeping eye contact, taking a good posture and acting confident, when speaking. These not only make you feel confident but also appear so before your audience.
7. Going Somewhere Different: When you make your next vacation plans, focus on trying somewhere entirely new to you, though with well-informed mind about such places. Go to places that will make you look assertive as they would offer you opportunities to talk to strangers and be inspired. This will boost your confidence which will be useful at home and abroad.
8. Try Traveling All by Yourself: There is something that is often said which is true that self-reliance develops self-confidence. Putting yourself in unknown zones, away from the routines and excelling in such areas is pure self-confidence. Take the risks wisely and become more self-reliant at the long run.
9. Becoming Physically Active with Others: Just talking and socializing with other people alone wouldn't do the magic. Getting fit by actively been involved physically with others like joining a local or neighborhood sport activities will surely boost your self-confidence level. I remember how withdrawn from playing football I was, when there was a large football pitch right in front of the teacher's quarters we lived in my teenage years, just because I wasn't confident enough and wasn't ready to get the vulgar words or insults from my contemporaries should I make a mistake.
10. Doing Self-Evaluation as often as Possible: It is best to know how well you are doing in anything or over any goal set by one'self, thus doing a self-evaluation exercise is very important. Put yourself in situation or get involve in tasks that are really demanding, see how well you have gone in boosting your self confidence and when possible and necessary reward yourself with something worthwhile.

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