Being confident helps you seize opportunities and able to take more chances and step up in your life and career. Lack of confidence would be detrimental to our appearance, relationships, and decision-making. Here are some simple ways to overcome the situation when we face a confidence crisis.

1) Find your strengths

Affirm yourself and question your own inner critic. If you don’t believe in yourself, it’s hard to achieve self-confidence. Discover your own strengths and work on improving them. Knowing your strengths would give you a confidence boost when you face difficulties. Write them down and add on to the list and refer to it whenever you have doubts. 

2) Read more and acquire new skills

Confidence is frequently linked to our abilities. So, stepping out of our comfort zone and building on knowledge and skills will make us more confident with ourselves. Reading makes us more knowledgeable, by having a broader understanding of different fields we could speak more confidently with people from different industry or countries. By expanding our expertise, we would be more confident with ourselves. This is because as we know that if something unexpected comes out, we can always rely on ourselves rather than waiting for help.

3) Keeping a good posture

Slouching was often deemed as insecure by others. Thus, keeping a power pose could boost our confidence and send positive body language to those around us. Check out the theory behind it through the famous psychologist, Amy Cuddy.

These are some of the simple ways to boost our confidence, even when we’re not. Keep reminding yourself of your strengths and adjust your posture. Step out of your comfort zone and build your self-confidence!