No one is born exactly confident. It is through deliberate actions and experience that people learn to build their self-confidence.

Developing self-confidence is vital to becoming successful in life. When you are confident you feel capable enough to take on any challenge and deal with problems life throws at you.

Here are 8 ways in which you can boost your self-confidence and win at life:

Question Your Negative Thoughts

The kind of thoughts we have play a significant role to how confident we are in life. Unfortunately for us, our brains are biologically wired to always focus more on problems than the positive aspects of life. As a result, we tend to think up negative thoughts when we are unsure of ourselves in certain situations.

These negative thoughts are so toxic that they can hamper our confidence and prevent us from achieving our goals in life. In order to prevent this from happening, we must question these negative thoughts and look for evidence against them.

For example, if you think that you don’t have what it takes to achieve a goal. Ask yourself: “What evidence is there to support the thought that I can’t achieve this goal,” and “What evidence is there that doesn’t support the thought that I can’t achieve this goal.”

You will likely come up with many reasons why you can indeed achieve your goal and even if you don’t, you will be able to be more objective in the way you see things.

Positive Affirmations

Positive affirmations are very powerful because they boost the way we view ourselves. They are uplifting statements we tell ourselves of how we desire our lives to turn out. Affirmations are mostly more effective when we say them aloud because we can hear ourselves when we say them.

For example, if you have doubts that you’ll be successful in future, practise telling yourself how bright you believe your future will be. You could say “I’ll be a millionaire in (so and so) years driving (so and so) car)” Be specific when you make affirmations and your brain will believe them more.

Practise Self Love

Self love exercises require you to think about all the positive things in your life and write them down. This works particularly when we are in our times of despair and feel discouraged about certain situations. By reminding yourself of all the great things in your life, you boost your self-confidence and gain inspiration to keep pushing ahead in life.

Step Outside Your Comfort Zone

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch.

In life, we tend to avoid the things that we fear and stay in our comfort zones. This can stifle our growth and prevent us from achieving our dreams.The only way we can truly break out of our comfort zones is by facing our fears.

Endeavor to do something that scares you everyday. In time, you’ll gain confidence through experience and come to feel good about yourself. So leave your comfort zone today and start facing your fears!

Self-Care

You need to be in the best place both mentally and physically if you want your confidence to soar. It’s hard to believe in yourself when you’re depressed or you’re in bad shape physically.

Endeavor to cultivate good habits like eating healthy, exercising, and getting enough sleep. Also, pay attention to the way you dress.Dressing good can boost your self confidence.

Learn Something New

Oftentimes, we tend to stick to what we know rather than learn new things because of the fear of failure. Yet, this may be the chief reason why we lack confidence.

Learning something new gives you a sense of accomplishment and purpose. In addition, when you succeed at something new, you start believing in yourself and gain the confidence to keep pushing on even when you fail.

Set Simple Goals For Yourself

One of the reasons why most people lose confidence is because they set themselves up for failure.This could mean setting goals that are too hard to achieve. You should take baby steps by setting yourself small goals that you can achieve easily.

Once you succeed in crushing these small goals, you’ll gain the confidence to move on to harder goals and you’ll keep winning.

Keep A Journal

Confidence increases when you have a list of things that you’re good at the things you should improve on. This is what journaling does for you. When you write in a journal, you’re able to track your

Write a daily journal of your accomplishments and setbacks as well. This will help you keep track of your progress and in turn boost your confidence.

Remember, building self confidence takes time and effort. Keep applying these steps listed above and in time, you will come to love the process and ultimately build your self confidence.