Increasing your capabilities through practice and achieving small improvements daily can boost self-confidence. Looking back on past achievements and noticing patterns of overcoming fear can also increase confidence. Starting with small, achievable goals and experiencing success builds momentum and belief in oneself. Focusing on strengths, catching and replacing negative self-talk with positive thoughts, and celebrating daily achievements are additional ways to develop self-confidence.

1. WHAT IS SELF CONFIDENCE?
1. Increase Your Capabilities https://uii.io/TAtK9eit
How can you boost self-confidence? By increasing your capabilities.
And how do you do that?
By making a commitment and having the courage to follow through.
Through practice and achieving improvement every day.
Just do small bits at a time.
If you want to be a more competent speaker, for example, don’t try to speak in front of 100
people on your first go.
Just begin to speak more.
Speak at smaller networking events. Record some short videos.
Talk to a small group of close friends or peers on a subject you know well.
The more you speak, the better you’ll be. That incremental improvement will boost self-
confidence.
Set aside 15 minutes to practice speaking (for example), and the practice will increase your
capabilities.
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2. Use Your Past as A Guide https://uii.io/TAtK9eit
Think back to a time when you achieved something but were fearful at the beginning. (Really
think)
What lessons can you learn? How was your confidence when you achieved that thing?
Was there a process you went through to overcome that fear?
If you have a number of examples of overcoming fear, you may notice patterns of courage
developing that you can use to overcome any current challenge that scares you.
This simple thinking exercise will prove to you that you have the ability to overcome things you
are fearful about.

2. Knowledge of previous achievements can help boost self-confidence.
3. Start with Small Steps https://uii.io/TAtK9eit
Rather than jumping straight in and tackling the big frogs, set a small goal and achieve it. This
helps remove overwhelm.
People often make the mistake of shooting for something far bigger than their current capability.
When they fail, they get discouraged, frustrated and start beating themselves up for failing.
Instead, focus on achieving something you know you can achieve.
Once you’ve achieved it, you’ll feel good and self-confident.
Then, set another small goal and achieve that.
This builds positive momentum and belief.
You’ll develop new capabilities, and in turn boost self-confidence.
Soon you’ll be setting bigger goals and achieving those too.
4. Focus on The Positive https://uii.io/TAtK9eit
Rather than focus on weaknesses that you wish to improve, focus on your strengths and
expand them.
My intentionally creating positive thoughts, and reframing bad situations into a positive focus,
made great things happen.
5. Stop Negative Self Talk https://uii.io/TAtK9eit
This is an essential mindset to master to increase your self-confidence.
You have to be aware of your own thinking and give yourself some time and space to think
about your thinking.
Become more aware of your self-talk and the thoughts you have about yourself and what you’re
doing.
If there are specific themes to the negative self-talk, step back from that thought and ask
yourself “why am I thinking that?” “is there a more positive way of looking at this?”
When you catch negative self-talk, try to replace the thought with a positive one.

3. If you think you are far away from achieving your goals, stop and reframe that thought.
Think instead about how far you’ve come from where you started.
Negativity become positive and self-confidence rises.
6. Understand Your Unique Strengths https://uii.io/TAtK9eit
When you spend time doing things you love and you’re great at your self-confidence is at a high
level.
Conversely, doing things that bore you, that frustrate you can lower your energy.
Spend some time understanding your unique strengths, and then try to spend more time doing
those things that utilise those strengths.
7. Celebrate Achievements Every Day https://uii.io/TAtK9eit
Self-confidence grows when we achieve something that is important to us.
However, we often always fail to recognise and celebrate all the great little wins we achieve
every day.
At the end of each day, write down 3 things you’ve achieved or are grateful for.
This simple habit of celebrating achievements is one of the best practices for boosting self-
confidence daily.
8. Really Understand Yourself https://uii.io/TAtK9eit
When you’re trying to overcome a negative self-image and replace it with self-confidence, your
enemy is often yourself.
The key to creating this transformation is to really understand yourself.