Basic Top Tips to Building Self Confidence

There are very few people who could call themselves perfect and be right. In all honesty, the people who think and call themselves perfect tend to be the ones with the most hidden problems in their lives. 
There is no such thing as a perfect person . The truth is we all have our own individual perfections and weakness that may or may not be compatible with other people.Most of us, although we may deny it to ourselves, need to build self-confidence today, but the majority just either ignore the issues or concentrate on the negatives: stress, worry, jobs, money problems, and relationship issues.Concentrating on these areas drains our self-confidence rather than improving it. We should switch our energy to focussing on the good positive things in our lives at the moment.

Understandably this is easier said than done in most cases but id also argues it’s a reluctance and willingness to try. More than 80% of the things we worry about never actually happen anyway and we worry for no reason.If you could improve your self-confidence you could make more money, look and feel better physically, or just be more relaxed with other people. Below there are five simple techniques that have been proved to help build self-confidence today.

1. Talk to yourself or animals and home pets. It sounds crazy but it works. All of us have a running monologue constantly in our heads, whether we realize it or not.  Everything we see, hear, or touch sparks off an immediate dialog in our thoughts.  For those who lack confidence, this monologue is filled with negative messages many of which are the negative side of adverts from television, radio, advertisement boardings, newspapers, and just overhearing other people talk.These negative thoughts literally suck energy from our minds and bodies and block the flow of positive messages. We need to hear the positive messages as they will build self-confidence today and raise our self-esteem. Take control. Use your inner thoughts to talk to yourself in a positive manner, as often as you can.As an example one of my regular sayings is “I like myself, I like myself, I like myself” or “you are amazing as you are” I just repeat it for a couple of minutes.  It sounds cheesy but does build self-confidence today – Try it. I bet that if you go to the mirror right now and repeat out loud “I like myself!” 50 times, it will be impossible to keep from smiling.

2.  Dress as smartly and as classily as you can.  You won’t feel at your best if you don’t look your best. You will be amazed at just how much more confidence you will have just looking your best. It just feels good when you are wearing your best clothes, are well-groomed, and are surrounded by a clean environment.  So what if it is Saturday, you need to build self-confidence today not next week. Put on your nice clothes, get the car washed, style that hair (sadly I don’t have any lol but it works)

3.  Increase your self-esteem even more by giving thanks to what you are, how you look, and what you are doing.  Say “thank you” to yourself to everything you see, all whom you meet, and each smile that you receive.  In addition to this be appreciative of who you are and what you do have.

4. Stand or sit correctly:  How you stand sends out a message to the World, and in turn, back to you. This results in improving how you feel about yourself and will build self-confidence today and every day.There is scientific evidence that shows how posture affects our mood. Do not slouch. Slouching produces a down mood. By slouching you are telling the world and yourself it doesn’t matter, you don’t matter.  Standing tall and upright will actually lift your mood.  Help build up your confidence by pulling back those shoulders, stop that slouch, and walk proud.

5.  Smile. Just smile and things seem better somehow. Practice smiling regularly and get your facial muscles used to work for the physical act of smiling. You use more facial muscles to frown when you are not in a good mood than you do when you are in a good mood and have high self-confidence. It can become tiring to frown all the time so turn that frown upside down.