Regaining and repairing your confidence is something which must be done over the course of a lifetime, and it doesn’t have to necessarily be in response to a traumatic event in life. Life can be difficult and stressful, and sometimes it does have a harmful effect on the way you enjoy your day to day life, but often it needn’t be that difficult. People always assume that confidence is something substantial and permanent, and once someone gains it it’s theirs to hold. This is because many people enjoy blaming their issues on the fact they have little confidence and enjoy thinking that once they achieve that, all life problems can be easily solved.
The truth is that confidence is an attitude which must be constantly maintained, and have grounding to it. You can’t simply force confidence. You can force the actions that a confident person would take and emulate or even generate it that way, but to have real, genuine confidence, it takes a special person to maintain it. These tips will help you do just that.
Meet Challenge
Challenges make up our lives. Many people, unfortunately, feel as though they will complete their challenges one day and everything in their life will be smoothed out, but as technology grows in sophistication and makes us want for less items than ever, it hasn’t brought us that feeling of relaxed happiness we always thought we’d achieve. It simply leaves us wanting to tackle difficult problems.
After all, we have evolved over millions of years to meet the challenge of an unpredictable world and have survived and thrived in that instance. Our inner need for challenge and adventure won’t be quenched simply because desks, cinemas, and armchairs were invented. Progress challenge and try to go out of your comfort zone at least once every day, be that socially, from a career perspective or in your fitness schedule. This purpose will imbue your life with a sense of self-respect and your mind with the sense of overcoming it needs to stay mentally happy and healthy.
Groom
Many people will tell you that grooming is simply an effort to cover up flaws and in this viewpoint, it makes people who attempt to look and feel better in themselves like people trying to hide insecurities. This is a shame, and this attitude is often spoken of by people who don’t bother with it in the first place. There’s no reason why beauty and makeup should be considered tools of the vain.
Celebrating and highlighting the beauty of our physical bodies on the earth shows self-respect and contributes colour to life. There is absolutely no reason why you should feel guilty about grooming yourself to look fantastic, the way you truly deserve to be depicted. There are so many products that exist which allow you to look the way you truly want to, and that can increase your confidence levels to sky high limits. For example, if losing hair, Regaine foam is a popular treatment for hair loss and can help you feel more like yourself than ever. Fake sleeve tattoos can be worn as decoration to help you have a different look every couple of weeks. Dying your hair can lend a whole new attitude to your outfit and make you feel more buoyant, more serious or more attractive. Your body is yours to do with what you want, and in this case it’s important to feel comfortable in your style. If you haven’t a style, maybe part of regaining your confidence is trying to attain one. This is usually the best method to stop bringing other people down and instead join the party of beauty!
Kindness
You will always be less confident and less of a person than you actually are when you’re living at odds or in conflict with other people. Overcoming this is simple – try to resolve past conflicts, apologizing when needed (even if not your fault) to settle scores and reduce the social stress you keep in your mind. It’s important to understand that no petty social conflict is worth the stress which accompanies your life.
None of us is here forever, and so making sure you live this life with a positive social attitude largely dictates how well you’ll live in it. A good network of positive social connections is the forefront of a confident persona without bravado. However, it’s important to find people who are like minded, and not worry about impressing people who don’t care about you. Know your self-worth, and enter the friendship and dating market with your best foot forward, genuinely understanding what you have to offer and who you’d like to meet. The fuel that generates this is kindness and a genuine interest in other people. It makes you magnetic, and when you’re magnetic, you’re often confident.