Confidence – more than a pawn (shutterstock)
What fuel is to fire is what confidence is too great skills. But this sacred combination of confidence and great skills is one that requires very careful attention. This is because even the greatest skills would melt away unused or under-used if the right amount of confidence is not added to it.
In other words, when you do not have confidence about something, even if you know the right thing, it will not go as planned.
I have often been caught rolling my eyes to the skies because I wasn’t sure of what I know. Lack of confidence is equated to a lack of skills, but a lack of skills with adequate confidence could give you a great boost. But even though, confidence only can help you almost effectively work with the ‘little’ you know, a good measure of confidence and good skills is an atomic explosive for creativity.
When we talk of confidence, we often find people of many categories. From people who will mask their ignorance with astute confidence, to those who would not showcase the skills they already hone because they are simply not sure if they are right, or if they are really good at it.
One closely related terminology to confidence is ‘bravery’. The simple difference between the two, however, is that whereas bravery is the ability to face an external threat without being afraid, in confidence, the threats are not some mere external physical objects but are internal reactions within the person. In plain terms, the threats are simply questions of “what if I am wrong?”, or “am I really sure?”, “what will be the outcome?”. In the case of confidence, the threat is not as real as you project them to be.
It has become so important that there is a great need to boost your confidence. Because lack of confidence is so crippling that even the mightiest persons find themselves trembling uncontrollably. You may already be looking for ways to boost your confidence but you realize that it has not been so easy doing that by yourself, and here am I showing you some great ways to boost your confidence in doing things.
But before then, what are the consequences of a lack of confidence?
Consequences of Lack of Confidence
Can I quickly talk from my own experiences? I was supposed to recite some lines on stage after doing my rehearsals, warmed up a little, and then set out for the stage. With a microphone in my hands, my hearts began to race reflexly. What was going on? My lips quivered and would not utter what my brain tells it to. Everything happened within a split second when the thought that I didn’t rehearse the lines well enough ran through my mind. And then, everything I knew suddenly disappeared into thin air.
You know why you need to boost your confidence in doing things? Here are some of the consequences:
1. Makes you forget the details
Just like it happened to me, lack of confidence makes you forget the details of the knowledge you have. Lack of confidence makes weakly assimilated information literarily evaporated off your skull. In other words, the one you barely knew just disappear and even the information you solidly assimilated and understood suddenly becomes shaky.
2. Takes away your creative abilities
Creativity is a function of what your hands can do with what you already know. But when you do not have confidence, both your hands and your mind are paralyzed. Even the most intellectually creative people would be reduced to become non-creative because lack of confidence has crippled the mind and hands.
3. Makes people lose hope in you
People want to trust someone who trusts themselves. Confidence is one primary leadership attribute that people look out for.
4. It stunts your growth
Lack of confidence makes you afraid of trying new things, hence, stunting your potential for growth and innovation.
5. Makes you take wrong decisions
When you are not confident, your sense of judgment is altered such that your choices are now based on some random guesses. You are silently asking yourself which of two or more options is correct. It would have been a normal quiz if your mind confident enough to accept what you previously know as correct. Instead, it hovers around all the options equally as though they are similarly acceptable.
6. Puts you up for painful regrets
There is nothing more painful than not being able to fulfill what you are actually capable of fulfilling. If you do not know something well enough and then you fail at it, it is reasonable to believe that you need to learn more about it. But if you fail something you knew just because you were so nervous and not confident enough, the pains and regrets are considerably greater. Isn’t it so?
7. Slows down your progress
In a situation where you are uncertain about what decision to take all because you are not sure of what to do, you spend considerably more time away. And because this judgment is not based on facts of what you know, it is almost always wrong, thus, wasting the entire time for nothing useful.
8. Makes you lose your credibility
When your confidence level is low, people automatically believe your opinion is wrong, even if it is the most logically acceptable opinion or idea. On the other hand, when you make your point unequivocally(in confidence), they receive the signal that your opinion is right.
Now that we have seen some consequences of lack of confidence, let us see some great ways to boost your confidence.
8 Great Ways To Boost Your Confidence in Doing Things
- Be given to the preparation
- Be consistent in practice
- Recognize that you don’t need everything to be confident
- Reassure yourself that you are confident
- Keep trying harder when you fail
- Look before you leap
- Ignore intimidations and focus on encouragements
- Be ready to face mistakes
Be Given to Preparation
One of the best and most basic ways to boost your confidence is to be given to a life of preparations, in the form of reading for an exam, rehearsing an act behind the scenes, simulating real-life scenarios even before the task is to be carried out, just stay prepared.
I have noticed that the majority of the times when my confidence level experiences a glitch are those times when I am not well-prepared, or I have the feeling I am not. Your confidence level boosts when you trust what you know and the two major ways to develop that are; testing yourself about what you think you know and actually putting your hands to work. Both of these are representative components of preparation.
A play of syllogism for you – confidence almost always comes with preparedness, but preparedness does not always confer confidence. Confidence is a decision, it is a lifestyle too.
Be Consistent in Practice
Like I mentioned in the previous point above, practice is one major component of preparedness. However, beyond the behind-the-scene pre-stage rehearsal sections, practice here is also a lifetime journey. What I mean by this is that, if you want to get confident in doing something, it must be a part of your daily life from this moment on. For example, want to be more confident at public speaking? Look for every opportunity you can get to interact with people, it may begin with very small groups of one or two, but that’s practice. And you know the beautiful thing they said about practice? Practice makes perfect.
Recognize That You Don’t Need Everything To Be Confident
Sometimes people are tempted to think that they need a lot for their confidence to boost their confidence. It is true that certain social signals like appearance, self-esteem, people’s judgments, and money, and preparedness, are major determinants of your level of confidence in doing things. However, confidence is not just a feeling. It is a mindset too. Developing this mindset of confidence entails that you look beyond these physical qualities that may contend with your confidence, and keep your morale high irrespective of the state of those physical things.
Fear, they say means, False Evidence Appearing Real. So the surest way to overcome fear is to first discredit the false evidence, and then, stop acting based on them. Many of those determinants I listed above do not directly affect your confidence, but they do so when you give them the right to.
Reassure yourself that you are confident
Positive self-affirmation is a belief that a positive mental attitude will produce success in virtually anything you put your heart to do, and this is largely true. Positive affirmations give you the extra boost to carry on because just like other uttered words, they have powerful effects on the mind. And when they come from other people, they can be as potent too. However, when affirmative words would not come from other people, you must have to reassure yourself of what you want to hear.
By telling yourself that you are bold and confident, and beautiful as the case may be, you condition your mind to look at what it was supposed to focus on – your unique abilities; and not some unreal limitations.
Keep trying harder when you fail
Who said you would never fail once or twice or even more? Success is not the absence of failure, it is the result of the courage to try again. And failure is not the experience of unexpected or unfavorable results, it is accepting defeat when it is not yet over to try again.
Confidence makes you do the same thing that other people do in extra-ordinary, strangely creative ways but the journey to the mastery of confidence may not always be a smooth ride. When you fidget, stutter shakes on the job, trembles instead of delivering confidently, you must have to keep trying to get better. Never give up trying and never give up practicing.
Look Before You Leap
I have often found that carefulness to observe well-enough before taking steps is crucial to your development of confidence. Some of the most confident people are very meticulous. They love planning their steps very well before they leap, that way they are sure of what they are doing, and that further boosts their confidence.
Been very meticulous has the disadvantage of slowing your progress down initially but that is usually only temporary. Evidence now supports it that being faster does not make you any better unless you are steady and systematic with the process – that is, following the steps involved for mastery.
The ironic thing here, however, is most non-confident people are also very meticulous and desirous of details. The real challenge, however, is they are either not well prepared with the details they desire or are simply not satisfied with what they already know about what thing they are required to do.
Ignore Intimidations and Focus on Encouragements
Have you ever been on stage and all you could see was the eyes of the audience peering in anticipation of your performance? They seem to be looking through your heart as it beats frantically within your chest. On the contrary, you must realize now that your audience actually wants you to do well because that is what gives them their own reward of being entertained.
To some others, the audience may not be intimidated. It could be other contestants in a contest, opponents, the judges, or even some external factors out there. Therefore, if the eyes of your audience, something about your opponents, etc, is intimidating, you must have to immediately ignore those intimidations and focus on other things, even about your contestants, audience, judges, family, etc, that encourages you to stay confident.
Be Ready To Face Mistakes
Risk-taking is a vital part of life but the ability to face risk is not the same for everybody. Mistakes are like risks that you must take. At first, you stand a fifty-fifty chance of making mistakes and not making one, but as you get advanced, your mistake margin reduces considerably and your confidence level increases.
In conclusion, confidence is a great ability that is required to make you more creative, make you attain mastery, as well as, makes people to believe in your capabilities.
Confidence is a leadership skill that distinguishes you from other leaders. However, many people and leaders alike do not know how to stay confident, or you may have recognized the need to boost your confidence. In this post, I presented you with great ways to boost your confidence and enjoy quality productivity, creativity and relationship with people. But it all starts with adequate preparation and self-motivation.
Check here on maintaining good teeth care to boost your confidence
Read on how video conferencing can boost your business
Confidence – more than a pawn (shutterstock)
What fuel is to fire is what confidence is too great skills. But this sacred combination of confidence and great skills is one that requires very careful attention. This is because even the greatest skills would melt away unused or under-used if the right amount of confidence is not added to it.
In other words, when you do not have confidence about something, even if you know the right thing, it will not go as planned.
I have often been caught rolling my eyes to the skies because I wasn’t sure of what I know. Lack of confidence is equated to a lack of skills, but a lack of skills with adequate confidence could give you a great boost. But even though, confidence only can help you almost effectively work with the ‘little’ you know, a good measure of confidence and good skills is an atomic explosive for creativity.
When we talk of confidence, we often find people of many categories. From people who will mask their ignorance with astute confidence, to those who would not showcase the skills they already hone because they are simply not sure if they are right, or if they are really good at it.
One closely related terminology to confidence is ‘bravery’. The simple difference between the two, however, is that whereas bravery is the ability to face an external threat without being afraid, in confidence, the threats are not some mere external physical objects but are internal reactions within the person. In plain terms, the threats are simply questions of “what if I am wrong?”, or “am I really sure?”, “what will be the outcome?”. In the case of confidence, the threat is not as real as you project them to be.
It has become so important that there is a great need to boost your confidence. Because lack of confidence is so crippling that even the mightiest persons find themselves trembling uncontrollably. You may already be looking for ways to boost your confidence but you realize that it has not been so easy doing that by yourself, and here am I showing you some great ways to boost your confidence in doing things.
But before then, what are the consequences of a lack of confidence?
Consequences of Lack of Confidence
Can I quickly talk from my own experiences? I was supposed to recite some lines on stage after doing my rehearsals, warmed up a little, and then set out for the stage. With a microphone in my hands, my hearts began to race reflexly. What was going on? My lips quivered and would not utter what my brain tells it to. Everything happened within a split second when the thought that I didn’t rehearse the lines well enough ran through my mind. And then, everything I knew suddenly disappeared into thin air.
You know why you need to boost your confidence in doing things? Here are some of the consequences:
1. Makes you forget the details
Just like it happened to me, lack of confidence makes you forget the details of the knowledge you have. Lack of confidence makes weakly assimilated information literarily evaporated off your skull. In other words, the one you barely knew just disappear and even the information you solidly assimilated and understood suddenly becomes shaky.
2. Takes away your creative abilities
Creativity is a function of what your hands can do with what you already know. But when you do not have confidence, both your hands and your mind are paralyzed. Even the most intellectually creative people would be reduced to become non-creative because lack of confidence has crippled the mind and hands.
3. Makes people lose hope in you
People want to trust someone who trusts themselves. Confidence is one primary leadership attribute that people look out for.
4. It stunts your growth
Lack of confidence makes you afraid of trying new things, hence, stunting your potential for growth and innovation.
5. Makes you take wrong decisions
When you are not confident, your sense of judgment is altered such that your choices are now based on some random guesses. You are silently asking yourself which of two or more options is correct. It would have been a normal quiz if your mind confident enough to accept what you previously know as correct. Instead, it hovers around all the options equally as though they are similarly acceptable.
6. Puts you up for painful regrets
There is nothing more painful than not being able to fulfill what you are actually capable of fulfilling. If you do not know something well enough and then you fail at it, it is reasonable to believe that you need to learn more about it. But if you fail something you knew just because you were so nervous and not confident enough, the pains and regrets are considerably greater. Isn’t it so?
7. Slows down your progress
In a situation where you are uncertain about what decision to take all because you are not sure of what to do, you spend considerably more time away. And because this judgment is not based on facts of what you know, it is almost always wrong, thus, wasting the entire time for nothing useful.
8. Makes you lose your credibility
When your confidence level is low, people automatically believe your opinion is wrong, even if it is the most logically acceptable opinion or idea. On the other hand, when you make your point unequivocally(in confidence), they receive the signal that your opinion is right.
Now that we have seen some consequences of lack of confidence, let us see some great ways to boost your confidence.
8 Great Ways To Boost Your Confidence in Doing Things
- Be given to the preparation
- Be consistent in practice
- Recognize that you don’t need everything to be confident
- Reassure yourself that you are confident
- Keep trying harder when you fail
- Look before you leap
- Ignore intimidations and focus on encouragements
- Be ready to face mistakes
Be Given to Preparation
One of the best and most basic ways to boost your confidence is to be given to a life of preparations, in the form of reading for an exam, rehearsing an act behind the scenes, simulating real-life scenarios even before the task is to be carried out, just stay prepared.
I have noticed that the majority of the times when my confidence level experiences a glitch are those times when I am not well-prepared, or I have the feeling I am not. Your confidence level boosts when you trust what you know and the two major ways to develop that are; testing yourself about what you think you know and actually putting your hands to work. Both of these are representative components of preparation.
A play of syllogism for you – confidence almost always comes with preparedness, but preparedness does not always confer confidence. Confidence is a decision, it is a lifestyle too.
Be Consistent in Practice
Like I mentioned in the previous point above, practice is one major component of preparedness. However, beyond the behind-the-scene pre-stage rehearsal sections, practice here is also a lifetime journey. What I mean by this is that, if you want to get confident in doing something, it must be a part of your daily life from this moment on. For example, want to be more confident at public speaking? Look for every opportunity you can get to interact with people, it may begin with very small groups of one or two, but that’s practice. And you know the beautiful thing they said about practice? Practice makes perfect.
Recognize That You Don’t Need Everything To Be Confident
Sometimes people are tempted to think that they need a lot for their confidence to boost their confidence. It is true that certain social signals like appearance, self-esteem, people’s judgments, and money, and preparedness, are major determinants of your level of confidence in doing things. However, confidence is not just a feeling. It is a mindset too. Developing this mindset of confidence entails that you look beyond these physical qualities that may contend with your confidence, and keep your morale high irrespective of the state of those physical things.
Fear, they say means, False Evidence Appearing Real. So the surest way to overcome fear is to first discredit the false evidence, and then, stop acting based on them. Many of those determinants I listed above do not directly affect your confidence, but they do so when you give them the right to.
Reassure yourself that you are confident
Positive self-affirmation is a belief that a positive mental attitude will produce success in virtually anything you put your heart to do, and this is largely true. Positive affirmations give you the extra boost to carry on because just like other uttered words, they have powerful effects on the mind. And when they come from other people, they can be as potent too. However, when affirmative words would not come from other people, you must have to reassure yourself of what you want to hear.
By telling yourself that you are bold and confident, and beautiful as the case may be, you condition your mind to look at what it was supposed to focus on – your unique abilities; and not some unreal limitations.
Keep trying harder when you fail
Who said you would never fail once or twice or even more? Success is not the absence of failure, it is the result of the courage to try again. And failure is not the experience of unexpected or unfavorable results, it is accepting defeat when it is not yet over to try again.
Confidence makes you do the same thing that other people do in extra-ordinary, strangely creative ways but the journey to the mastery of confidence may not always be a smooth ride. When you fidget, stutter shakes on the job, trembles instead of delivering confidently, you must have to keep trying to get better. Never give up trying and never give up practicing.
Look Before You Leap
I have often found that carefulness to observe well-enough before taking steps is crucial to your development of confidence. Some of the most confident people are very meticulous. They love planning their steps very well before they leap, that way they are sure of what they are doing, and that further boosts their confidence.
Been very meticulous has the disadvantage of slowing your progress down initially but that is usually only temporary. Evidence now supports it that being faster does not make you any better unless you are steady and systematic with the process – that is, following the steps involved for mastery.
The ironic thing here, however, is most non-confident people are also very meticulous and desirous of details. The real challenge, however, is they are either not well prepared with the details they desire or are simply not satisfied with what they already know about what thing they are required to do.
Ignore Intimidations and Focus on Encouragements
Have you ever been on stage and all you could see was the eyes of the audience peering in anticipation of your performance? They seem to be looking through your heart as it beats frantically within your chest. On the contrary, you must realize now that your audience actually wants you to do well because that is what gives them their own reward of being entertained.
To some others, the audience may not be intimidated. It could be other contestants in a contest, opponents, the judges, or even some external factors out there. Therefore, if the eyes of your audience, something about your opponents, etc, is intimidating, you must have to immediately ignore those intimidations and focus on other things, even about your contestants, audience, judges, family, etc, that encourages you to stay confident.
Be Ready To Face Mistakes
Risk-taking is a vital part of life but the ability to face risk is not the same for everybody. Mistakes are like risks that you must take. At first, you stand a fifty-fifty chance of making mistakes and not making one, but as you get advanced, your mistake margin reduces considerably and your confidence level increases.
In conclusion, confidence is a great ability that is required to make you more creative, make you attain mastery, as well as, makes people to believe in your capabilities.
Confidence is a leadership skill that distinguishes you from other leaders. However, many people and leaders alike do not know how to stay confident, or you may have recognized the need to boost your confidence. In this post, I presented you with great ways to boost your confidence and enjoy quality productivity, creativity and relationship with people. But it all starts with adequate preparation and self-motivation.
Check here on maintaining good teeth care to boost your confidence
Read on how video conferencing can boost your business
