subject: The Path of Building Self Confidence, and the Change It Will Bring to Your Life [print this page] The Path of Building Self Confidence, and the Change It Will Bring to Your Life
Building self confidence can be quite a feat, especially for people who are not naturally out going. While there is nothing wrong with being shy, there is a problem when people have negative self esteem because of this shyness. Many self help books lay out chapters upon chapters about self improvement and how to be confident, but what you need to know is that it all starts from what is happening on the inside.
The reason that having no self confidence is a problem is because it gets in the way of your interaction with the rest of the world. You believe that you are not worthy of other peoples time and attention, hence the rest of the world will start to think that as well. Now put that situation in an office environment. Even if you had the most brilliant idea in the entire history of your company, if you are not able to present it properly to the people that matter, the project will never be approved. Building self confidence is important so that the people in your company will see that you are a stable person who is confident in your abilities. Hence, if they believe that you believe that you are capable, then they will feel more at ease with giving you leadership.
That is another reason why building self confidence is important. Leadership will never be acquired by people who have no self confidence simply because people will not be willing to be subordinate to those people. People do not want to follow in the leadership of someone who cannot even believe enough in himself or herself as well.
Building self confidence starts on the inside. You need to start affirming yourself, your beliefs, and your worth. You need to start realizing that you are a worthy person, and that you have something to offer the world. Start off small. Start off with an affirmation to yourself every morning before you face the world. Tell yourself that you are smart, capable, and that you are worth it. Attack all of your negative beliefs and start seeing the reasons why it is wrong. If you believe that you are ugly, then you need to see yourself for who you really are. You need to see what it is that is attractive about you. The more you do this, the more you stay on the path of building self confidence, the more the world will see it as well. Try it, and see how it makes all the difference.
