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Tips of Developing Your Confidence

By Joe Marchelewski ⋅ April 29, 2008 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Subscribe By Email ⋅ Post a comment

Developing your personal confidence can be hard, especially if you’re not naturally a person who is confident or who thinks about confidence as an asset. However, everything from the Bible to Tony Robbin’s tapes discuss the issue of believing in yourself. Here are some easy tips on how to grow your confidence, which will help grow your personal development:

1. Make a decision. Don’t sit back and wish you had a stronger belief in yourself. Make a decision to become more confident and then make life changes to back up that decision.

 2. Spend time with positive people. We all know a “Debbie Downer,” someone who has nothing positive to say about the world around him/her. People like this should be left in the dust. Get around those who see themselves as strong, bold or otherwise confident. Their attitude will rub off on you.

3. Allow for mistakes. The biggest blow to confidence is failure (obviously), but the greatest success stories are riddles with failure. Noah’s ark was only filled with seven people to go with all those animals (not a very good preacher), Abraham Lincoln was defeated in all sorts of elections before becoming president and Steven Spielberg was rejected from the USC Film School before becoming an Oscar winning director.

4. Find something your terrible at and get better. It’s easy to get better at something you love or something you care about. But, as a training ground, find a sport, hobby or activity that really is just a palate that’ll help you learn principals. When your passionate about something, it’s easy to lose focus. But, if you’re taking a cooking class just for the heck of it, you may learn that you’re impatient with carrots, which may give you insight into other areas of your life.