Self confidence meaning and it's benefits

The Meaning of Self Confidence and How It Benefits You ?

(Concept of self confidence with an example) 

Are you the one who is lacking confidence?

Are you the same guy who has low self confidence?

Are you the exactly one who is willing to boost self confidence?

If you are that person, then my dear friend welcome to this article, because I am going to break the concept of self confidence.

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The best ways to boost self confidence and what to do while you have low confidence in life.

This article deals with the best tips and tricks that will make you to boost your self confidence.

Let's start this post with a simple question, Imagine yourself invited as chief guest in the cultural program among thousands of peoples, organized by a NGO. 

 Suddenly someone holds you the mic and  you are asked to speak something about the theme of that program.

Now my question is will you able to speak or stand in front of those thousands of people?

 If yes then congratulations you have a great confidence and a strong belief on yourself, but if you can't,

Then readers let me tell you that there are many like you who stuck  with this problem.

What is Self-Confidence?

Self confidence is the perspective to have a belief on your skills and how you see yourself. Self confidence makes your character, it creates a difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person. 

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•  In simple terms Self confidence is a quality that makes you different from others. 

• It is an ability to trust yourself .

• Self confidence means you have a trust on your skills and have a good knowledge about weakness and strength .

 

WHAT IS SELF-CONFIDENCE?

Self-confidence is an attitude about your skills and abilities. It means you accept and trust yourself and have a sense of control in your life. You know your strengths and weakness well, and have a positive view of yourself. You set realistic expectations and goals, communicate assertively, and can handle criticism.

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Why one lacks self confidence?

Here can be the possible reasons:- 

Everybody feels the lack of self confidence from time to time. It can be caused by many things, such as: 

• Lack of success

• Lack of good relationships with people

• Negative emotions and thoughts

• Lacking knowledge and skills

• Lack of self awareness

• Fear of public speaking ( Glossophobia )

Do you remembered the  question that i previously asked you ? 

There are many people in this whole world who can't express thier views among people. There are many people who can't speak in public, and start shivir ing when they were called to speak.

In psychology the fear of public speaking is called Glossophobia. But you don't worry because most of the people has this phobia and with some simple steps you can easily cope with it.

1. Try to speak more in public program.

3. Enroll yourself in public speaking courses.

Must check to know more about Glossophobia Fear of public speaking. 

The reasons for lacking self confidence are not always logical. It is important to understand that it is a normal feeling and not something that should be taken too serious. 

We should try to identify the root cause of our feelings and try to change it.

Benefits of self confidence

Here are the few benefits of self confidence:-

1. Self confidence creates a strong feeling of satisfaction.

2. It makes a person to believe that what he is doing is right.

3. Self confidence increases one's risk taking capabilities.

4. Self confidence makes you more stronger.

5 Tips to Improve Your Self Confidence Today

Here are some of the best ways that can help you to improve your self confidence :-

• Get some best hobbies

Hobbies, but how can they even Benefits you and how can they help you in being confident?

Just simple, hobbies makes you open consider the example of diary writing, it is something that can help you in expressing your thoughts, feelings and emotions openly.

It makes you to share everything with it and makes you stress free and reduces that thoughts load.

Hobbies makes us mentally strong and reduces our thought load. 

 Some hobbies can be  singing, writting, learning a new skill, adventure, tourism anything. 

Hobbies are important part of our life and helps us in discovering ourselves and the important note is that these hobbies makes you happy. 

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 Because  you are following your intrest. So set some hobbies.

Hobbies that i suggest

I suggest you to start diary writing from today. Because diary writing has a great benefits and it connects your life together in couple of pages and when you read it after a year or two then it will bring the feeling of nostalgia.

• Discover yourself 

In today's society we are so much busy that don't have a couple of time for ourselves. 

In order to be being confident person in life you must start discovering yourself.

 For building self confidence  you must aware with your weakness and your strength.

Because when you are aware with both of them then you can easily work upon them.

Soon you can convert your weakness into strength and can become a confident person.

One becomes stronger when he overcomes his weakness and fear and to be honest you all must try to get rid of lack of confidence.

Tips for low confident students

If you are a student and you have low  confidence then i suggest you to participate in school programs, in school assembly and in other programs it will reduce your public fear.  

Try talking with your friends, discuss with them about any topic don't feel shy to talk with girls talk with them too, it will help you in building self confidence.  

• Be confident in yourself

Another tip for building self confidence is to believe in yourself , one lacks confidence because he doesn't believe his skills.

 I bet once you start believing in yourself then automatically your confidence will be boosted.

When we lose our confidence we starts self doubting on our own work and that is actually very dangerous.

In order to give your best version out and to achieve what you have set for yourself you must work intensely. Without having a doubt.

Having no doubt and fully ensured about your plan can make you successfull and you will feel a sense of confidence.

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• Stand for right

Self confidence comes when you do something right and low confidence or confidence lacks when you are guilty.

This  not for everytime but for most of the time it happens, so the way you dressed doesn't matter, ic something matters than its your knowledge.

Be a confident man work for the well being of this society. 

You should have the idea of what you are doing, if you are doing something good in well being of this society then from what you are afraid of. 

When you are right then confidence comes automatically.

 • Improve your self talking skills

Self talking is the best thing that i have come across till the time I have started practicing it.

It not only helps in building self confidence but also makes you open to yourself.

You can understand yourself and you can make yourself your best friend.

The best thing about self talking is you can get any answers to your questions, not that from the book but that from the life. 

Self talking is the best skill to discover and improve yourself, so why shouldn't you try out.  

Bonus tip

• Pay attention on your posture .

 They way you behave the way you act matters a lot so why don't you make your posture more good in order to be more confident.

Because it is said that posture is best and first thing one notice , so have a good and positive posture . 

Here's a Positive posture that you must develop:-

• Sit straight 

• Rub your hands to show

 excitement .

• Don't bite your nails .

• Have an attractive smile on your face . 

 

The above are the few things that can help you in building self confidence.

Self confidence vs over confidence 

In today's society we have heard many times that this main is over confident . So what actually this over confident stands for . 

Over confidence refers to , having a strong belief in yourself , to do anything . In other words it is the quality of being too confident over something . 

Now what is better for you self confidence or over confidence . Obviously , Self confidence is better for you . Because self confidence makes you best .

 It makes you positive  , but over confidence makes you too positive that you can even try to do that thing where you are too confident .

 In other words over confident makes you careless and stops your learning ability . 

That's all  dear readers these above points will help you to increase your self confidence . And you can soon become a successful person . 

Summarisation 

Self confidence is something that's necessary and a need of today's society with few efforts you can easily do that , follow the above tips work hard rest is history. 

Conclusion  

That's all for today guys , i will end this post with my words that believe in yourself, believe in your work because only your work will decide whether you will own a Rolls Royce or Toyota.

Choice is yours

Good day :)

(Note:- This is an edited version of old blog post In order to make information more accurate)