Written by Harry Croose
"Confidence comes not from always being right, but not fearing to be wrong ."
Hey, welcome back to my blog – today we will be talking about the vital importance of building confidence. Now to many when we talk about the confidence we see someone who is extrovert, charismatic and is seemingly unmarked by negativity and criticism. However, this image of confidence is merely an illusion. Confidence can be shown externally through the means above but also through many more factors in life. Here are 7 Steps to build confidence.
1. Create Confidence Categories
Confidence to me is how one sees themselves but more particularly honed towards a person’s goals for example in social interactions, (which is the most common perception of what a confident person is). But confidence is so much more than just someone who has master socialising but can also be with someone’s health, finance, career so on and so forth. These Confidence categories are a very important part of raising Self-Awareness as far as confidence is concerned because it can help you identify where you are strong in confidence and where you are less so. These categories can also go into further sub-categories like health can be further broken down into more segments like nutrition and muscle gain fitness. This may bring some further awareness to you – as someone could be easily confident in themselves when it comes to eating healthily and looking after his/her nutrition, but that same person may not be confident in muscle gain fitness.
2. Write a Goals List
Writing a Goals List, in summary, would be a really good way of not only further affirming your self-awareness of your confidence level but would also give you a clear distinct direction to head in to potentially improve your confidence in certain areas of your life to improve your wellbeing, happiness and success in life.
3. Build foundational habits
Building foundational habits is incredibly important for confidence building. Building habits in areas of personal strengths and weakness, such as budgeting in finance and meditation in personal wellbeing. These habits allow you to have the practise and build momentum in the areas you which to improve in your life.
4. Leap of Faith (Be courageous)
Sometimes, just taking a dive outside your comfort zone, and being courageous is the quickest way to expand your horizons as far as confidence is concerned. After all, before confidence is courage. Confidence is being contented and able in your own comfort zone, courage is the act to expand your comfort zone. This is the most drastic and possibly the scariest but will get you the most results and insights even if you believe you didn’t do well.
5. Self-Education
As you would research for an essay, a way to build confidence in a particular subject whether for academics or for own personal education is to research and self-educate yourself in the areas you want to improve further. This doesn’t have to be for just confidence but can be for all facets of life.
6. Fulfill your needs
Occasionally, we do not feel confident, because of a selfless need to look after others, before ourselves, make sure that you are looking after yourself when it comes to your own basic needs such as personal hygiene, grooming, hydration etc. The lack of fulfilment of these needs like a domino effect will still affect and knock against your confidence levels. Having these established will give you that solid foundation.
7. Ask for help
There is no need to go through this challenge alone. If you have supportive friends and family, perhaps you could ask them to assist you and help you grow in confidence, after all, they know you better. You could also ask some people at University, for example, a Career’s Adviser, Lecturer or Councillor depending on your needs and self-awareness as to where your confidence is limited. There are also apps and local charities that help young people.
Bonus Point.
Treat yourself.
Nothing gives you more confidence, then the confidence to treat yourself occasionally whether it be a delicious meal out somewhere with your friends or buying something online that you have always wanted. This can be a great way of self-affirming to yourself and a good way to remind you how awesome you are.
Anyways, until next time, please check out my other blog posts on similar subjects. Also, my courses if they interest you. 
Take care and have a lovely evening. Remember that even the shy person is confident int eh idea that they are shy. SO in a sense, shy people are still confident.
Harry,
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