low self esteem and confidence

There's tons of threads on this subject.

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The main tip is to act as if. Act as someone who is confident and you will become confident.

Cheers,

C.G.

Being timid, shy, and soft spoken isn't necessarily a bad thing. Although he was strong, Jesus was "meek" too.
: )

In terms of Internet Marketing, I think you grow in confidence by taking action and seeing results from your efforts. In fact you don't have to be "confident" (etc.) at all, you just have to keep taking positive, consistent action.

Something I recommended in the following post was to create a "success journal."
http://www.warriorforum.com/mind-war...elf-doubt.html

Basically, you document all your previous successes—great and small. And keep adding to your journal. It won't solve everything, however it will help.

Hey,

I also sometimes lack confidence and need to continuously work on it.

What really helps is being more aware of your past achievement. I, for example, created a file on my phone in which I write down all successes and compliments.

Maybe write down situations where you were able to speak up and be confident… then go through these situations in your head for a few weeks.

Having these situations crystal clear in your head allows you to challenge your negative thoughts once they start to effect you.

Yes, you might be shy, but you also have a different side within you.

So whenever a “low-confidence” thought enters you head, say “no thank you”-“ that’s BS because I am confidence. Situation X proves it”

Hope this help. I also wrote a long post about confidence on my blog. Here is the link: 3 Ways to Instantly Boost Your Self-Confidence | The Leader of TomorrowThe Leader of Tomorrow

Are you familiar with mindfullness? It is life changing and has worked for me. Do some research on this, and I am confident it will help you.

Hey,

You should check out Jim Katsoulis' program My New Self Image. What this program will do is it will help you create not only a new self image for yourself, but it will show you how to manifest that so that you can completely change your life. I actually bought this program a while back and I must say that it is an awesome program that shows you exactly how you can rewire your mind for the things that you want in life. In your case, it would to be more confident and have higher self-esteem.

The mind is a powerful tool when you know how to use it, and this program goes in depth to show you how.

Hope this is helpful!

-Josh

Hi there, let's have a little dialogue to figure out what you can do in this situation.

I need to know a couple things to give you direction.

First, are you more an inward-focused person, thinking a lot, experiencing the world from inside your head? Do you imagine the world from your own perspective first, and move out from there? After you get home from being out with a group, do you feel worn out and need to recharge?

Or do you instantly imagine what other people feel like, and jump over to their perspective right away? Does being out with other people empower and excite you? When you talk with others, are you more concerned about their world than your own?

Second, what skills do you have that you know in your heart and bones that you can help other people with? How do you know you can get results for them?

Let me know the answers to these questions and I can give some recommendations.

Buy a copy of psycho-cybernetics and follow the step by step instructions.

Self-esteem, confidence and the like all stem from your self-image, or how you view yourself.

You need to view yourself in a better light. That book will teach you how.

Building your self-esteem starts with simple steps.
First: believe in yourself....If you think you can, you CAN! If you think you can't, you CAN'T!
Check out some of these steps in PLR #6 in "Self-esteem up ahead" which I posted earlier.

Baby steps.

The feeling of low self esteem or low self confidence, all come about as a result of your thinking. Low self esteem and confidence are not natural states for you to have. You have to think to yourself that you're no good, no-one will value you, etc to feel this way. The beauty of this, is that it is your thinking creating this, and you can change your thinking....... or simply decide to stop giving it any credibility.

You obviously have some desire or dream that you want to achieve, and that is great. Being able to follow your authentic desires is part of lifes journey, and you are having these desires, because on some level, there is an aspect of you that wants you to achieve it, so you owe it to yourself to get it.

Your thinking wavers from having high quality thoughts, to low quality thoughts. Sometimes your thinking should be trusted, and other times you should simply ignore it. If your thinking is making you feel bad, then that is your body's signal to you that you can't trust your thinking at the moment.

...And when you find yourself getting this understanding, something amazing begins to happen. Your natural confidence, and natural self esteem begin to emerge, because this is how you are meant to feel, when you overcome all that other unhelpful thinking

Stop looking outside for your confidence, resolve your thinking, ignore it when its not helpful, and you will find your natural confidence begin to emerge from within.

Cheers

Josh
Authentic Self

speak up

i cant read you

I suggest you to read Books on relevant topic, just to boost your confidence.

Also meet your friends and relatives regularly, just have gossip with them.

Even you can form a group of your friends and can discuss on any topic, just to open you up.

Follow this on regular basis, you definitely improve.

Have a look at the list of topics in the post: "self-esteem up ahead". Some of those articles could show you steps to take to start building your self-esteem and confidence. Would love to work with you.