How To Build Confidence

Hello, I'm Sarah Lloyd-Hughes from Ginger Training and Coaching, and today I'd like to give you a bite-size coaching technique on personal development. If you would like any more information about my self or my company, please visit go-ginger.com.

How to build confidence? Having confidence is all about freedom from doubt, the belief in yourself and your abilities. Confidence isn't static. If you think about your own life, you'll see that there are some situations where you feel very confident and other situations where you feel completely opposite.

Why is that? Because we all have what's known as a comfort zone. Inside the comfort zone, we are able to act with ease, and outside the comfort zone is where we're actually quite afraid to go and it often happens that the more we dwell on the thing that we're not confident about, the more scary it becomes. So, building confidence is all about expanding our comfort zone little by little so that we're capable of more.

But how do you do that? First of all, notice where your barriers lie. Become aware of where you restrict yourself. What are the patterns of behaviour that you use to avoid the thing that you are not confident about? Secondly, make a list of all the things you have to feel grateful for, anything from your education to the people around you, to the things that you've achieved and the talents you have.

This is your list of confidence, all the resources that you have at your disposal, whether your memories or current things that you can feel good about. And, my third tip is to write your goals as if you have already achieved them. For example, if you are afraid of public speaking, then you might say something like this, “I'm a good public speaker.

People love to listen to me. I remember all my lines and so on and so forth.” Then, write these down on a post-it note and stick the post-it note on your mirror, and every time that you look at yourself in the mirror, think or say out loud what's on the paper.

It may sound a little bit cheesy but it really works because it focuses your mind on what you can do rather than on what you can't do, and it tricks the brain into thinking that it's already happened. And over time, this would extend your comfort zone. I hope you find these tips useful.

Building confidence is a process that takes time, so be patient with yourself and of course, the quickest way of old to overcome confidence issues is to jump into the situation that you were afraid of. So, go ahead and be brave, and if you have a confidence issue that you'd like to work on, head on over to Ginger Training and Coaching's website, go-ginger.com, to find out more about what a coaching program could do for you.