Lack of self confidence can severely hamper your life in so many ways. It prevents you from going after your dreams. It hinders your ability to become successful in friendships, business and life in general. Lack of confidence doesn’t have to be a life sentence. You can turn it around.

How do you boost your self confidence?

First off, understand that it will take work. After all, it’s probably been awhile since you first lost your confidence, if you ever had any? It will be deeply embedded in your personality by now. It has become part of you, the way you think, what you tell yourself and what you believe.

Boosting your self confidence will take time. The good thing is that if you start to do a few simple exercises every day, you’ll be surprised how much better you feel almost immediately.

Continue the exercises over several months if necessary, and before long you will be a confident person, able to tackle anything that comes your way. Nothing will prevent you from achieving what you want.

Let’s get started.

Create your dream list. List things you’d love to have, whether it’s new furniture, a new career, business success or something smaller, like enough money to replace your entire wardrobe every year. Get really creative and even excessive in your desires.

Don’t think about whether you actually believe they are achievable. Just think about what would make your life fabulous.

In your mind, you probably think there’s no way you can have those things. That’s your lack of confidence talking. Now let’s look at some other the things that destroy confidence and interfere with your achieving those desires.

Get rid of guilt. Guilt plays a major role in how confident you feel.

1. Write down anything you feel guilty about.
2. Go through the list and imagine what it would be like not to have those guilt feelings.
3. For each item on your list, write down 3 reasons why you do not have to feel guilty about them.
4. Set your mind to refuse to feel guilty about those things again. Keep your list handy if you need it refer back to it later.

Get rid of fear. Fear destroys confidence and will control you and prevent you from going after your dreams.

1. Write down the things that you fear.
2. Go through each item and force yourself to do them. Believe that you can do them. Accept that you don’t have to be perfect. It’s okay to make mistakes and still like yourself.
3. Repeat until your fears no longer prevent you from going after your dreams.

Give yourself a pat on the back. Do it every day and whenever you achieve the smallest step in going after your goals. Do it every morning when you get up and every time you do something you fear. In other words, acknowledge your achievements every day and as they happen.

Make these exercises a regular part of your day, and before long, you will boost your self confidence. Nothing will stand in your way.

If you suffer from anxiety attacks, know that lack of self confidence is behind a lot of it. Boosting your self confidence will have a significant effect on your anxiety.

Do you know the difference between confidence & arrogance? It’s a fine line sometimes.