10 Killer, Daily Habits to Boost Your Confidence

Everybody could do with a bit more confidence in one or more areas of their lives, whether it’s at work, in a relationship or in meeting new individuals. And if you want complete and well-rounded success, you have to have boatloads of self-confidence.

Even if you’re reasonably self-assured most of the time, it is beneficial to do a little mental strengthening every once in a while. It feels good to be self-confident, which perpetuates more confidence, impresses people and brings you success.

Review this list and try to follow a few of these strategies even if you think you have it in spades. You just might end up feeling even better about yourself than you ever thought possible.

1. Start Each Day Alert and Ready for Action

   
   Do you ever have those days when the alarm goes off, you put it on the snooze feature, it goes off again, and again, and you eventually turn it off or hide it under the pillow? How does your day pan out when you get up late and head out of the door in a manic rush?

   Confident people love life so much that they don’t want to waste a minute of it. Start your day “on the front foot,” that is, ready and prepared to proactively engage with the day and you won’t waste the rest of it trying to catch up with yourself.

2. Concentrate Your Mind on the Page

   
   You may not be a Zen meditator, but any drill that teaches you to stop your thoughts wandering and to arrive in the “here and now” pays dividends. And writing pages is one of those useful concentration habits to develop.

   Take three sides of paper. Write whatever comes into your head. There is no right or wrong way to write, you don’t need to feel inspired by great creative verses. Just write anything, it’s strictly stream of consciousness stuff: “Hello blank pages, I haven’t a clue what to write, but I’m writing anyway.” Continue until you have filled the pages. As if by magic, something useful emerges from the page.

   The discipline of writing your thoughts on a blank page acts as an invaluable brain dump in the morning to quieten the busy and logical part of your mind and get you centered and creative.

3. Put Your Best Sunglasses On

   
   Imagine if you had got up this morning and put on a pair of rose-coloured sunglasses. You’d be traveling through your day armed with a warm, healthy glow. Everybody and everything you see would take on a pinky hue.

   In a way, every day you do put on a pair of sunglasses. They act as a filter through which you perceive the world. It’s just that you may not be
   aware of what type of filter you have chosen.

   By choosing your sunglasses for the day, you decide how to frame your experiences that day. You decide if it is going to be a day that is rich and precious, full of interesting experiences, or one of constant battles to be fought. Your experience begins in your own head. As you start each day, decide which sort of glasses you’re wearing.

4. Track Your Moods and Emotions

   
   How are you today emotionally? Do you know how you feel and how you feel it? Emotionally intelligent people have a high level of awareness — they stay in tune with how they’re feeling and the effect they have on other people.

   Do a stock check during the day and begin to notice what’s going on inside you. When do you feel confident and when not? How do you know what you’re feeling — what are the telltale signals in your body?

   How do other people around you know what you’re thinking — is it written on your face or conveyed by the tone of your voice or your behavior? By tracking your moods, you have a measure of where you are at in case you need to refine the direction.

5. Exercise Your Body

   
   Strange as it seems, you can go to the gym feeling tired, exercise, and come away feeling energized. Your brain loves exercise. In the past few years, researchers have contradicted the commonly held belief that you’re born with a fixed number of neurons and produce no more during your lifetime. Even adults can grow new brain cells, and exercise is one of the best ways to achieve this.

   The good news is that exercise doesn’t have to be too vigorous. Just walking sedately for half an hour a day improves your scores on abilities such as learning, concentration, and abstract reasoning. Senior citizens who walk regularly perform better on memory tests than their counterparts who sit around more. Find a form of exercise that you enjoy and do it regularly.

6. Take Quiet Moments Alone

   
   How are you with the power of silence? If you’re used to rushing around and being with people non-stop, then taking ten minutes to sit quietly alone may be an enlightening experience.

   So try this every single day: Switch off your phone, your door bell, your computer, your TV, and your radio. Go to a place where no one and nothing will disturb you. Sit there quietly without talking or
   interruption for ten minutes.

   Allow yourself to dream while you are free of internal chatter and noise. Just empty your mind, experience the space, and let the creativity unfold.

7. Go Outside and Wonder at the Beauty of the Sky

   
   Remember, a whole world lies outside your door. Take time each day to get out there and stop to notice the natural world, the passing of the seasons, the changing patterns in the sky.

   Notice how you are part of something so much bigger than you and your immediate environment and enjoy the beauty of it all. Even if you live in a big city, it’s free and fun to go barefoot in the park.

8. Operate from a Position of Generosity

   
   What goes around comes around. Whatever you give out has a habit of coming back to you in some way or another. Confident people act from a position of generosity and abundance. They give what they can, when they can — whether it’s their time, talent, money, energy, or love.

   Aim to give to others and remember to give to yourself too. Generous thoughts nurture your mind and attract generous people to you.

9. Review Today and Create Your Tomorrow

   
   At the end of each day, mentally review what happened and how you experienced it. Perhaps the day worked out pretty much as planned but you didn’t get as much done as you thought you would. You can learn from this; perhaps you habitually give yourself too much to do.

   Every night before you turn out the light, write down the five most important things you want to do tomorrow. They can be anything at all, but make sure they are the important things and the ones that fit with your values. While you sleep your unconscious mind will be working out for you how you can achieve them most easily.

   In the morning, before you get out of bed, take your list and decide how you to fit the tasks and activities into your day. If it looks a tight fit, start with the most important and leave out the least important.

10. Connect with Your Life Purpose

    
    If you were to ask yourself right now “Why am I alive? What’s my life about?” you may not have an instant answer. With a little probing, you would soon arrive at something along the lines of: “I want to make a difference. I want to make the world a better place. I want to create love, joy, magic, harmony, peace, and so on. I want to be an example to others. I want to live a good life.”

    As you accept that you are responsible for your own journey, you find more clarity and freedom, and thus confidence to be yourself and do what is right for you. As you travel through each day, hold the bigger picture of your life and make sure that what you are doing now fits well with the bigger picture. Then you can simply enjoy being alive, knowing that you are being your most confident self.

Building up self-confidence takes time and commitment but it is well worth it. You will soon find yourself embracing yourself and giving off a very positive energy that will surely come back to you. So take the bull by the horns — this time the bull is you.