The document discusses the concept of self-confidence, highlighting that true self-confidence is based on realistic expectations rather than pride in past achievements or fear of failure. It emphasizes the importance of acceptance, personal growth, and making confident decisions while cautioning against low self-worth and superior complexes. The document also provides tips to boost confidence, such as smiling, maintaining eye contact, and surrounding oneself with positive influences.

3. What is self-confidence?

4. TrueSelf-Confidence –
is a realistic belief
or expectation of
achieving success

5. Not what you hope to do but
what you realistically expect to do
Not what you tell others but your
innermost thoughts about your
realistic capabilities,
Not pride in past deeds but a realistic
judgment about what you are able
to do

6. Low Self Confidence
Optimal Self Confidence
Over Confidence

7. Staying in urs comfort zone,fearing failure and so
avoid taking risks.Some Points are
 “I can’t find happiness.” This is the paradox that
confuses even the smartest people. You need to
learn how to set yourself up so that success and
happiness find you.
 “Life has nothing more to offer me.” This
statement is another mistake that people make. It
is a mistake because the statement is inside-
out, in reverse. Instead it should read: “What do I
have to offer life?”

8.  Make Decisions with Absolute Confidence
 At Optimal Self-Trust you’ll learn how to:
 Release self-doubt and replace it with self-confidence
 Make crisis-time decisions with swift and total clarity.
 Stop beating yourself up about past choices.
 Listen to what you want instead of needing others’ approval.
 Take a leap of faith and let go ... you’ll discover you can fly

9.  Often we come across people who are self
confident i.e. egotistic and
stubborn.Generally these people have the so
called ‘Superiority Complex’

11. The Greatest
thing that a
Parent can give
to his Childrens
are Roots

12. Parents with Low
Confidence breed
confusion and
Low Confidence
in their Childrens

13. Being Ignorant is
not Shameful but
being Unwilling to
learn is.

14. Unfair
Comparisons
make a
Person feel
inferior

15. People Start Looking
at Themselves as
Failures,not realizing
that failing does not
equal to ‘Failure’

17.  Readthe life histories of People who
have turned a Negative into Positive.

18.  The one-second tip for when you’re feeling
nervous and unconfident is simply to smile! You
don’t just smile because you are happy and
confident – you can smile to make yourself feel
better. The act of smiling is so strongly
associated with positive feelings that it’s almost
impossible to feel bad while smiling.

19. If you believe in a higher power, whether God, or
another spiritual force, it can be a real boost to self-
confidence to say a silent prayer.
“Dear God, thank you that you
love and accept me as I am …
please help me to do the same …
and help me to grow to become
the person you want me to be so
that my God-confidence and
self-confidence will increase
greatly—all for the glory of your

20.  Accept Yourself as You Are….!!
 Undersatnd „Experience is what You get when
You don‟t get what You want.

21. Remember Your Childhood:
“You Never gave up to stand and walk.”

22. What You Say to Yourself Mattes the Most.
Its all how You See Yourself.

23. The Process of giving without
Expectations in returns raises one’s
Self Confidence.

24. As well as smiling, meet the eyes
of other people in the room. Give
them your smile; you’ll almost
certainly get one back, and being
smiled at is a great self-
confidence boost. Like
smiling, eye contact shows
people that you’re confident.
Staring at your shoes or at the
table reinforces your feelings of

25. We Should Accept Our
Resposibilies and Stop Blaming
Others.

26. Associate Yourself with People of Good
Quality.

27. Have Patience and Keep doing the good
thing.Even though result may not be
visible,Something is happening.

28.  A Small Boy-the fifth among seventh siblings
was selling newspapers in small village to
earn his living .
 He was not exceptionally smart at school but
was facinated by Religion and Rockets.
 The first Rocket he built crashed.
 The missiles he built crashed multiple times.
 But his “Self Confidence” and get going sprit
in him made him script the book “The Space
Odyssey of India Single Handedly.”

29. Dr. A.P.J Abdul
Kalam

30. A School teacher scolded a boy for not
paying attention in mathematics.
 For not solving a simple problem
 And said that he would not become
anybody in life.
 But his mother’s confidence in him
made her coach him mathematics.
 And the Boy went on to become

32. A Winner is not
the one who never
fails but…..the one
who never
quits…!!

33. Neha Dogra,
Punjabi
University,Patiala{M
CA}