21 quick and no-nonsense methods to boost your confidence

By AlicePopkorn

21 quick and practical methods to boost your confidence to great level which you may find very interesting:

1. Don’t beat yourself up about the past mistakes. Past is gone, it’s never coming back. Instead learn from it for next time. Learn from the past and just move on with the new lesson.
2. Are you prepared for different situations? Do you believe that you are organized and equipped as much as necessary to meet any challenge that may show up in your life unexpectedly? Are you prepared for meetings, seminars, presentations, financial issues, public speaking, and job interviews? If not, get to it right now.
3. Buy yourself some new stylish clothes, get your hair done in a different way, and treat yourself to something new. It will make you feel better and will boost your confidence to a great level. Always keep changing your style. Every time you change your style you will feel new and afresh.
4. Think about someone who is confident and copy there style. You can act, talk and walk like them. You can find lots of celebrities and leaders on TV. Choose your favorite ones and try to copy their characteristics and behavior. If it works for them; it will also work for you.
5. Smile when you walk down the street, when you meet people and generally be happier even if you’re not feeling that way. Smile sends signal to your mind that you are happy in general for no cause.
6. Improve your weaknesses. Know and be grateful for what these are and put a plan in place to improve them over time.
7. Play to your strengths. Find out what you are superior at and expose yourself to these opportunities because you’re good at it, you’ll enjoy it and have more confidence.
8. Always be positive. Find out the “I can do” side of things and focus on that side more than the “I can’t do” side. Realize that you’ve already accomplished alot in your life and believe that you will achieve lots more in the future.
9. Whenever you feel a negative thought coming, STOP, rephrase the thought, give it a new meaning and then move on with new perspective. 
10. Always be in charge of your thought. If you’re thinking negative thoughts, then these thoughts will act as speed breakers in your own progress. Ask empowering questions to be more positive.
11. Learn how to say no to people whenever you really want to say no. Don’t be afraid of saying no. Saying no to all unwanted demands is a shortcut to boost your confidence.
12. Do you allow your mind to let the words of others affect you? Do you always think mind what people think about you? This is very important to realize that no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not what they say to you that’s the problem it’s what you say to yourself is the problem.
13. At the end of each day list your accomplishments, results and successes throughout that day. It will make you feel better and also reinforce you mind to the good feeling of success and confidence.
14. Every morning when you’re in the shower, visualize in your head the events in the day as if they have already happened and they were a success. Visualize all of the meetings that you had, the people you talked to, the results you had. Visualize success and confidence and it is the easiest way to become successful.
15. Always be thankful. Find out what you have to be grateful for in your life right now. Who do you love? Do you have family? Do you have home, food, cloths? Do you have friends? Feel grateful for having all this.
16. Find out the words that you commonly use on a regular basis when you feel down or upset. Have you ever noticed that most people use different words to mean the same thing and depending upon the intensity of the word it will have an effect on your confidence. For example instead of saying “I’m enraged about this” say, “I’m a little annoyed “and it will have a different effect on your mind.. Make a alternate list for the words that you use. These new words will be substitute for old words which create more intensity or negative impact. Just make sure that they are lower in intensity and then use them often. You’ll be surprised with the results.
17. Emotion is created by motion. Make sure you move around constantly. Motion creates energy and gets the blood pumping around you body. If you move constantly then you feel better and more confident. That’s the reason you feel good after a long walk or running or after a good workout.
18. Learn to show off. Always brag about yourself. Chatter about your achievements and successes. It will help you to access a resourceful state of mind. It works like affirmations. It’s like self hypnosis.
19. Try to improve your body language. The way that you move your body has immense impact on your own confidence levels. Move your body energetically and always walk with your head up, shoulders back. Assume that you’ve got somewhere very important to go. Feeling low in confidence? Change your body language and intently you will feel confidence.
20. Remember YOLO!!! You Only Live Once. If any time that you are feeling down just ask yourself this question: in 10 or 20 years time – will what I am worrying about really matter? And this question will instantly alter your mood.
21. And finally – realize that life is meaningless and empty. You can define it in any way you wish. You can literally paint your life in your own colors. Give it a positive meaning and it will become positive.