CONFIDENT MEANING🤠:–
Feeling or showing that you are sure about your own abilities, opinions, etc.
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Here are our top five tips to build confidence:
1. Practise self-care
Self-confidence and self-care are often closely linked. As we saw in our article on self-esteem, exercising regularly, sleeping well, and developing a healthy diet can all make you feel better about yourself.
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Taking time to assess your needs can help you to identify what makes you feel good about yourself. Practices such as mindfulness and gratitude can also help to reduce stress, improve emotion regulation, and improve sleep.
2. Build positive relationships
Those who are negative and try to bring you down can often drain your confidence. As the NHS suggests for improving self-esteem, try to spend less time with those people. Instead, aim to build relationships with people who appreciate you. Their positivity can help you to feel more confident.
You can learn techniques to foster positive interpersonal relationships with our course Build Trust and Grow your Self-Confidence.
3. Work on a growth mindset
Some research shows that those with a growth mindset tend to have higher self-esteem and resilience than those with a fixed mindset. While there is an argument about whether confidence affects a growth mindset or vice versa, building a growth mindset can help with other areas of your life.
Check out our course on growth mindsets and career success as well as our course on the science of success to learn more.
4. Challenge yourself
The NHS recommends setting yourself a challenge to help build confidence. Although it’s natural to be nervous about trying new things, those with confidence will take on the challenge regardless.
They also recommend setting goals, which can help with forming new behaviours, giving focus, and starting to make gradual progress.
5. Practise self-affirmations
Various studies have shown the power of affirmations. Essentially, by telling yourself about your strengths and how confident you are, you can reinforce these positive thoughts. One particular study demonstrates that self-affirmations can help to maintain our self-efficacy, which is a key component of confidence.
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The importance of confidence😎
The feeling of self-confidence can be immensely rewarding. What’s more, studies have shown a variety of benefits associated with confidence. Below, we’ve highlighted some of the reasons why confidence is important:
🔴Confident people are more likely to live longer
A study from Brandeis University in Massachusetts and the University of Rochester in New York found that those who are self-confident and resilient are more likely to live longer, healthier lives.
The research found that those who had a high sense of control (more confidence) seemingly negated the mortality risk that comes with lower levels of education.
🔴Confident people are happier
A 2003 study found that (aside from some variation across cultures) those with higher self-esteem were happier, more satisfied, and had fewer negative moods. You can learn more about building confidence and managing stress in our course from Luleå University of Technology.
🔴Confidence impacts physical and mental health
Research suggests that there is a benefit to having positive self-esteem. Confidence is linked to mental wellbeing and happiness and is also associated with better recovery after severe disease.
🔴Confidence is linked to success
Although the exact link is unclear, there is often a positive correlation between self-esteem and success. Of course, this could be that success makes people feel more confident, rather than that confident people are more successful. However, as we saw when we looked at growth mindsets, believing that you can persist and work hard often help deliver success.
🔴Is confidence a skill?
There is some debate as to whether confidence is a skill or an attribute. While it’s easy to feel that it’s something that we’re born with, confidence is not a fixed attribute. If we go back to our definition, confidence is made of our belief in our ability to succeed and our belief that we can influence situations in our life.
Again, much of this echoes the concept of a growth mindset; the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts. So, while things like intelligence and personality are relatively fixed, our belief in ourself and our abilities can be trained.
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