Building Lasting Confidence (eBook)

Practical Strategies to Boost Self-Esteem Overcome Negative Thoughts and Achieve Your Goals

Marta Eline Popesc (Autor)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
100 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-095833-4 (ISBN)

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This book provides a comprehensive guide to developing and strengthening self-confidence. It explores the importance of being confident, the connection between self-esteem and self-confidence, and the many benefits that come with a confident mindset. It also offers practical strategies to overcome negative thinking, set clear goals, and maintain self-esteem no matter the circumstances. This book is a valuable resource for anyone looking to boost their confidence and self-worth and live a fuller, more authentic life.

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Building Lasting Confidence

Practical Strategies to Boost Self-Esteem Overcome Negative Thoughts and Achieve Your Goals

 

 

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Chapter 1: Breaking Free from Self-Doubt

Chapter 2: The Mindful Way to Self-Assurance

Chapter 3: Fear Less, Live More

Chapter 4: Your Confidence Core

Chapter 5: Young Architects of Tomorrow

Chapter 6: Transforming self-Doubt through NLP

Chapter 7: The Speaker Confidence Toolkit

Chapter 8: Rising Women - Crafting Confidence In A Man's World

Chapter 9: Leading With Confidence: Confidence In Leadership

 

 

 

Introduction:

 

What does it mean to be "self-confident?" What is its origin? How can you tell if you're confident?

All of these are good questions to ask yourself if your goal is to feel confident, achieve more success, be more attractive and live a happier life.

If you want to reach your goals, you need to be clear about your self-confidence.

Self-confidence is used in a variety of contexts. It can be used to help individuals achieve their business goals, improve one's health and much more. This is more than a trendy word. It's a concept that has real meaning. It has to do with mental health and physical well-being.

 

Self-confidence is a concept that involves both feeling and doing.

It is not an abstract concept, but a process that involves how we see ourselves, others and how we cope with the challenges and uncertainties of life. This applies to the inner, private and outer worlds around us. This is a very broad definition of self-confidence.

 

What does it mean to be confident?

 

Self-confidence is the belief that we have in our own abilities and ourselves. It is our internal state, which includes what we think and feel about ourselves. It can be affected by our current state and how we react to events around us. It is not unusual to feel confident in certain situations and less confident in other situations. The past events and our memories of them can influence self-confidence. When you recall a success, your confidence will be different than when you remember failures.

 

Everyone experiences low self-esteem at some point. Low self-esteem can be a result of a traumatic event, like a breakup, or the death of a close relative. It can also occur unexpectedly. It is draining and hurtful. It's a real drag! Some people can't get rid of it.

 

You don't need to suffer from low self-esteem and confidence issues that stop you from doing what you love.

 

You can live your life to the fullest and completely transform it!

 

Self-confidence is a feeling of self-assurance and pride in your abilities/skills. When we say that someone is confident, it means they feel good about themselves and their abilities to achieve what they have planned. This ability, which comes from the way you view yourself, can have a positive impact on your life and happiness. It can also help you achieve greater success and survive difficult situations without any outside assistance.

 

 

Willpower and Self-confidence

 

Both are important, but they differ in many ways. Both have their own value, but core confidence is a result of internal factors.

 

Many self-confident individuals are "loud" and proud in groups or situations that they control but less confident in intimate, unfamiliar or unpracticed settings. A teacher with the confidence to give engaging, interesting lectures on their subject might lack the confidence to talk to a stranger.

 

Even people with a lot of self-confidence can have varying levels from day to day, and depending on external factors. Often, you'll hear about people who "lost confidence" or say that they used to feel confident, but after a particular situation, they now feel they need to rebuild or find their confidence all over again.

 

Core confidence, on the other hand, is not affected by external factors. You can control it more directly and it's less likely that your confidence will rise and fall with the tide. The core confidence doesn't depend on external influences or factors. You can command it!

 

Core confidence is the feeling of being confident in yourself, your abilities, and your beliefs. Core confidence can develop, be built and strengthened. Your self-confidence is more likely to remain strong and robust with a greater core level of confidence.

 

How to develop core confidence

These exercises will help you to build your confidence.

 

1. Do not compare yourself with others

Comparing ourselves with others is something we do often. It can increase our self-confidence if we believe we are better than others. If you, for example, have higher sales numbers at work than colleagues, then your confidence in the situation will increase.

 

If your colleagues achieve better sales than you, then your confidence will drop. You don't need to compare yourself with anyone.

 

Comparing yourself with others can be a great way to undermine your confidence, especially if you don't know the person to whom you're comparing. You might feel unfit in the gym compared to other people.

 

You don't even know the number of years they've been exercising. Or how long they exercise each day. Or what their life is like outside the gym. You might be looking at professional athletes. You are comparing yourself with an image from the past without knowing the full story.

 

You could also fall into the same trap by comparing yourself with someone who is richer or has a nicer car. You have no idea if that person won their money or inherited it. They may not have owned their car at all, but rented it or borrowed it.

 

It is important to remember that comparing yourself with others is often unfair. You could be comparing apples and oranges without even realizing it. You should only compare yourself with yourself. Core confidence comes when you are the best version of your self.

 

2. You can trust yourself

You need to have confidence in yourself to feel confident. Trust yourself and your decisions. Even though things might not work out the way you want, if your reading this chapter and are still breathing then even your worst choices weren't that bad.

 

You must trust your instincts, and make decisions based on your knowledge and experience. Do not second-guess yourself or seek a second, third or even a fourth opinion. This will only undermine your confidence. Make decisions based on experience and instinct instead, knowing that you will learn from whatever outcome occurs.

 

3. Live in the Moment

It is all too easy to waste mental energy and time dwelling on the past, or worrying about the present while ignoring where you are at the moment. The past is not something you can change, so it's useless to dwell on it constantly.

 

It is also pointless to worry about the future. The fear or worry you feel today will not affect your future.

 

Do your best to build confidence in the present moment.

 

Your confidence will rise if you know that you are doing your best. You will know that you have done your best, no matter what life throws your way. Do your best today, and stay focused. That's all you can do. According to an ancient Indian saying, "If one eye is fixed on the goal, one eye can only be focused on the journey."

 

4. You can learn from the past

Negative feelings about the past such as regret or fear are not constructive.

 

It's important to not dwell too much on the past.

 

The past can also be a good teacher and everyone should take lessons from...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Persönlichkeitsstörungen
• ISBN-10: 0-00-095833-6 / 0000958336
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-095833-4 / 9780000958334