Boost Your Confidence Today

Fun Activities to Build Your Self-Confidence

Self-confidence helps us believe that we can handle whatever task or challenge placed before us can be achieved with style and grace, well, at the very least, completed. It implores us to try new things and take the extra leap. We could all use a little more of that. However, it’s easy to get bogged down with reading and acquiring information. Many people are too busy planning and need more confidence to take action. Planning is essential, but you must implement your plan to see results.

Try these activities and boost your confidence today:

1. Try getting specific. Are you confident in brushing your teeth, tying your shoes, and driving a car? Probably so! You likely have more self-confidence than you realize.
   -List some situations where you’d like to feel more self-confident. Some examples include dating situations, public speaking, meeting new people, being more assertive at work, or dealing with conflict.
2. Create a self-confidence blueprint. Take a few minutes and jot down a half-page of notes regarding the specific situation where you desire greater self-confidence. How would you act? How would you look to others? How would you feel? Think about your body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, and breathing.
   -Ensure that you define and understand what self-confidence looks like to you. It’s difficult to accomplish “it” if you’re unsure what “it” is.
3. Everything is more manageable in hindsight. Imagine that you’ve already been through the situation in question. Visualize yourself being incredibly self-confident. Put in as much detail as possible. See yourself acting following the criteria you listed in the previous step.
   -Do this visualization at least once daily until it’s 100% believable. Then, you can try out your newfound self-confidence during the situation in question. Avoid expecting perfection and focus on personal growth.
4. Get physical. Attempt to sit, walk, talk, and act confident. Intentionally try to take on the physical characteristics of someone brimming with self-confidence. Smile and stand up straight. Use good eye contact.
   -Before you realize it, this will become a habit. Your current physicality is merely a poor habit. Form a new, positive pattern of using confident body language.
5. Stretch yourself. Come up with a list of activities that will stretch your confidence muscles. It can be little tasks that you find slightly uncomfortable. As they become more comfortable, you can concentrate on more complex tasks.
   -Suppose you have a fear of interacting with people. You could start by smiling at twenty-five people passing by at the mall. The next day, you could say hello to twenty-five people. The following day, you can compliment 25 people, and so on.

Building self-confidence requires action. Take some time each day to work on your self-confidence. Few things will have a more significant positive impact on your life than increasing the level of confidence you have in yourself.

Create an action plan and stick to it. Self-confidence can be very easy to build if you make the effort. A little work can result in huge rewards.