Self Confidence Exercises: What They Can Do For You and How To Start

Have you lost your self confidence? Exercises can help tremendously to bring it back. First, let's see what went wrong.

Everyone is faced with challenges, worries and frustrations. How we deal with them depends on a number of things, among them your mental state at the time. If you are feeling a little under par, you are more likely to doubt your abilities. That is in part because during those periods, we do not feel capable of meeting our obligations.

Normally, those feelings would disappear rather quickly, but if they persist, your doubts will increase.

Health is one such situation. You might initially worry about getting better and soon after, wonder if your boss is going to keep your job open. How will you get your work done even if he does understand your problem?

And, of course, you're probably going to get stressed out about how you'll deal with the mound of work that's piling up on your desk, day after day.

This can lead to a severe lowering of self confidence over time. In fact, it can become a permanent thing if you do not do exercises to bring it back.

What can they do for you?

Self confidence exercises retrain your brain into seeing the good things in your life. They might focus on what it was like prior to this happening.

If you've had low self confidence as long as you can remember, they will show you a new way of looking at your world. This could mean believing that you can do anything you desire because you have the confidence to achieve it.

As you are probably aware, a lack of confidence can cause you to miss out on a lot of the pleasures that life holds for you. Have you ever held back from joining a group or participating in an event because you had so many inhibitions about doing so?

Have you often wondered what it would be like to have people listen to you instead of ignore you?

Lacking confidence is a common problem, but fortunately you do not have to suffer with it forever. Here are a few pointers to get you started on your confidence building.

1. Take time to evaluate your life, going right back as far as you can remember. You're looking for your strengths, which might be a certain talent. Were you good at playing a musical instrument in high school? Did you receive praise for writing a great essay? Was sports easy and fun for you?

2. Once you've built your list, compare it to your life today. What things do you now feel confident doing? This is where the first list will come in handy. It's possible you can't think of anything you are good at, but find it in that first list.

Luckily, we all have strengths and talents that come to us naturally. They usually emerged during our youth. Some people continued to develop those skills as they grew up. Not everyone is so fortunate. Perhaps your efforts were met with so much negativity and criticism that you put your talents aside.

You might even find out that this is where your lack of confidence began.

3. Delve into those strengths again. Take up the pen, the musical instrument, the soccer ball or tennis racket. You are sure to discover something that still appeals to you that you can do well.

These self confidence exercises are just the start.

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