4 habits to boost our confidence when we need it
Confidence isn’t the absence of fear. It’s the belief that you’ll be okay despite your fear.
In other words, confident people haven’t figured out how to eliminate fear — they’ve changed their relationship to it.
In other words, confident people haven’t figured out how to eliminate fear — they’ve changed their relationship to it.
They see fear and uncertainty as uncomfortable but not dangerous.
And as a result, they’re able to act alongside their fear instead of being paralyzed by it.
1. Accepting fear instead of running from it
Confident people don’t lack fear — they just have a healthier relationship with it.
Confident people don’t lack fear — they just have a healthier relationship with it.
Eliminating your fear is impossible. Avoiding fear creates anxiety.
Fear is uncomfortable but not dangerous.
Confident people don’t eliminate fear. They embrace it.
2. Communicating assertively
Confident people communicate their own needs honestly and respectfully.
On the other hand, people with low self-confidence routinely put aside their own wants and needs in favor of someone else.
Confident people communicate their own needs honestly and respectfully.
On the other hand, people with low self-confidence routinely put aside their own wants and needs in favor of someone else.
If you always put other people’s wants and needs before your own, you’re always going to feel unworthy.
Confidence comes from doing the right thing even if it feels difficult at the moment.
3. Making decisions based on values, not feelings
Confident people build trust in themselves by prioritizing values over feelings.
The secret ingredient to feeling more confident is trust. Confident people trust themselves to do the right thing no matter how they feel.
Confident people build trust in themselves by prioritizing values over feelings.
The secret ingredient to feeling more confident is trust. Confident people trust themselves to do the right thing no matter how they feel.
People who lack confidence are constantly putting aside what they really want and value because they’re afraid of how they’ll feel or how others will feel.
Confidence comes from trusting yourself to act on your values instead of your feelings.
4. Practicing self-compassion after mistakes
Confident people know that beating yourself up for mistakes is no way to succeed long-term.
In many ways, confidence is less about what you do and more about what you don’t do.
Confident people know that beating yourself up for mistakes is no way to succeed long-term.
In many ways, confidence is less about what you do and more about what you don’t do.
When they make a mistake, confident people simply treat themselves the same way they would treat a good friend — with compassion.
‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave.’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave.’
George Martin
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