<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054971082994081483</id><updated>2024-10-04T19:08:17.357-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR SELF CONFIDENCE</title><subtitle type='html'>When you are self confident, you have a basic belief in your own value and your ability to have and use skills and knowledge to accomplish goals. .</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tipstoimproveyourselfconfidence.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1054971082994081483/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tipstoimproveyourselfconfidence.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054971082994081483.post-5903407084139089882</id><published>2013-06-06T10:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2013-06-19T02:48:25.369-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Self Help Book Store</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;4000&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; src=&quot;http://astore.amazon.com/selfimprov02-20&quot; width=&quot;90%&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tipstoimproveyourselfconfidence.blogspot.com/feeds/5903407084139089882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://tipstoimproveyourselfconfidence.blogspot.com/2013/06/self-help-book-store.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1054971082994081483/posts/default/5903407084139089882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1054971082994081483/posts/default/5903407084139089882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tipstoimproveyourselfconfidence.blogspot.com/2013/06/self-help-book-store.html' title='Self Help Book Store'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1054971082994081483.post-4868604590359794053</id><published>2012-01-02T03:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2013-06-19T02:48:40.105-07:00</updated><title type='text'>HOW TO GAIN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot; trbidi=&quot;on&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;&gt;Self-Confidence – The Roadblock to Your Ambitions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you really want that dream? Do you really want to be your own boss, travel the world, or get that degree? If so, the only problem might be you. Yes, these are harsh words, but when it comes to stopping your dreams and not achieving your ambitions, you are your own worst enemy.&lt;br /&gt;You know how you have to psyche yourself up to get a job done? Sometimes just to do the dishes, you have to convince yourself to do it and that you can get it done without taking all day. That is giving you self-confidence. Without it, the dishes pile up and the work never gets done.&lt;br /&gt;It all comes down to your self-confidence and taking control of your actions. You are the reason that dreams are achieved are never seen. How?&lt;br /&gt;&quot;I Can’t&quot;&lt;br /&gt;Think back on all the times that you thought that you couldn’t do it. It might have been studying for an exam, getting a project done, or simply talking to your boss about time off. It doesn’t have to be something major to be something your self-confidence struggles with. It is anything that you feel that you unable to do. &lt;br /&gt;Tell yourself that you can’t enough times and you begin to believe it. Take an injury your leg. Tell yourself that you will never walk on it again. The result? You never even try to put your weight on it. You never let the therapist work on it. The leg becomes useless. You became the reason that you didn’t walk again.&lt;br /&gt;&quot;I Can’t&quot; is one of the most powerful phrases. That phrase blocks many from their dreams. It is blocking yours. &quot;I can’t go back to school now.&quot; &quot;I can’t quit my job.&quot; &quot;I can’t go into business for myself.&quot; &quot;I can’t see my dreams come true.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thinking that you can’t do something will ensure that you don’t do it. You need to think that you can. This is not always easy. It doesn’t generally come naturally to anyone. Very few can brag about that. You have to work at it. You have to want it.&lt;br /&gt;Shy around men? Want to overcome it and have more self-confidence? You have to tell yourself that you can and then follow through. Keep telling yourself that you can’t do it and you will stay in the shadows and never know what it feels like to be having fun with everyone else.&lt;br /&gt;Do you want it bad enough to go for it? Are you willing to sit around and let the world continue without you? You have to want to develop self-confidence to achieve your life’s ambitions.&lt;br /&gt;Your lack of self-confidence could be the reason that your dreams stay dreams. You’ll stay in a dead end job or never be the entrepreneur that you have dreamed of. Want to live the dream? Want it to become a reality? Get some Confidence.&lt;a href=&quot;http://increasemyselfconfidence.com/&quot;&gt;NOW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blogger.com/%3Ciframe%20src=%22http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?t=httpwwwincr02-21&amp;amp;o=2&amp;amp;p=8&amp;amp;l=as1&amp;amp;asins=1402769229&amp;amp;nou=1&amp;amp;ref=tf_til&amp;amp;fc1=000000&amp;amp;IS2=1&amp;amp;lt1=_blank&amp;amp;m=amazon&amp;amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;amp;bc1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;amp;f=ifr%22%20style=%22width:120px;height:240px;%22%20scrolling=%22no%22%20marginwidth=%220%22%20marginheight=%220%22%20frameborder=%220%22%3E%3C/iframe%3E&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;I CAN MAKE YOU MORE CONFIDENT IN 7 DAYS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Everyone has dreams. These dreams float around in your head all the time. They surface when you see a picture, have a tough day, or just want something different in life. Yet, you still go about your daily life thinking that your dreams will never come true. Negative thinking will help make that come true. Positive thinking, on the other hand, helps you achieve your dreams and more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Grab the Dreams&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Winston Churchill once said that &quot;&quot;A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.&quot; Seeing how your dreams cannot come true is a pessimistic viewpoint, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Believing that you can grab those dreams and make them real is the power behind positive thinking. Even if something negative happens, the optimist uses it to their advantage because they know that they can conquer it. If you think you can, then you can.&lt;br /&gt;
Are you expecting those dreams to fall out of the sky and land in your laps? Are you waiting for everything to fall into place for you to have everything you ever dreamed of? Who has that ever worked for? They might have had some lucky breaks here and there, but everything just did not happen. They had to believe in themselves and believe that they could have their dreams. If they had not, then their dreams would never have been a reality. They took control!&lt;br /&gt;
How did Nikola Tesla give the world so much in the way of electricity? He did not sit around and wait for everything to fall into place for him. He knew that he could do it. He believed that he could do it. He threw his entire self into it to bring his dreams to life. He took control!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Taking a Chance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Positive thinking involves taking a chance. You have to believe that you can do it. You have to be willing to step out and do it. Really want to be your own boss and have your own coffee shop? Want to become a bestselling novelist? Want to have your own cooking show? You have to know that you can do it. You have to believe in yourself enough to ignore the naysayers. You have to be willing to break away from job security and tell the world that you can make it and will succeed.&lt;br /&gt;
If you want positive results, you have to have positive thinking. They go hand in hand. You have to fully believe that it will happen in order to make it happen. Dreams are the means of inspiring the greatness within. Sitting back and letting them stay dreams denies them the chance to bring about that greatness. &lt;br /&gt;
Positive thinking brings about positive results. What are you dreaming of? What future do you want for yourself? What do you want to achieve? Do you believe that you can? Most people don’t. They have to develop the confidence within to achieve those dreams. It is rarely something you are born with, but it is something that is not beyond your reach to develop. You have to take control!&lt;br /&gt;
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Of all the attributes needed to succeed, what do you think is most important? Skills? Of course, you need to learn. Hard work? Definitely a help on the road to success. Coincidence? Therefore, it can play a role, not really something you can control. What about links? Again, certainly useful, but not the most important factor.&lt;br /&gt;
In fact, it is not the latter.&lt;br /&gt;
Its&amp;nbsp;&#39;self-confidence&#39;. As Henry Ford once said: &quot;If you think you can, you&#39;re right, and if you think you can not, you&#39;re right.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3jTJxpkZ5cz32rbGV3GbfbR3oGDFGMGYGnpKIXdLg63To6oarNSH8gpAThF5KFWXXJQWNf3mRKiz0xXJX5xdDsuSwKm1AtUguLPXcE43UHQub-kyhW9GS1f_EEc08WvlKDY0Q5-X66X8/s1600/8461e0dhulf9i0.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3jTJxpkZ5cz32rbGV3GbfbR3oGDFGMGYGnpKIXdLg63To6oarNSH8gpAThF5KFWXXJQWNf3mRKiz0xXJX5xdDsuSwKm1AtUguLPXcE43UHQub-kyhW9GS1f_EEc08WvlKDY0Q5-X66X8/s320/8461e0dhulf9i0.jpg&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; width=&quot;224&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;What is confidence? It is the belief that we are able to do certain things and do them well. If we believe we can &quot;fit&quot; in a social situation,&amp;nbsp;we are more likely to do just that. If we believe we can succeed in our work, there is a good chance. If we believe we are a responsible person with good ideas and strong skills, soon we will inspire others to think so.&lt;br /&gt;
Having confidence is not something you are born, and at least most of us are not. This is something we must learn and practice every day of our lives. We need to understand how to assess our level of confidence for us to say whether to help or hinder success. Very little confidence and we fail,if we have to much and&amp;nbsp;we become&amp;nbsp;arrogant.&lt;br /&gt;
The first step is to assess the emotions. If you feel that you are always on site and taken advantage of, or be able to do more than you have in life, it&#39;s time to learn how to improve self-esteem. Follow these simple tips&amp;nbsp; and you&#39;ll be off to a good start ...&lt;br /&gt;
Start with your appearance. Those who seek trust and confidence are seen to act as insurance. Dress comfortably, but properly and with a little style. If you&#39;re a jeans and t-shirt person change to chinos and polo shirts.Stand&amp;nbsp; straight, good posture makes you look good. Change your hair style&amp;nbsp;.Walk with your head held high and have more progress,do not&amp;nbsp; look down, which makes you look like you are afraid.&lt;br /&gt;
Now you are ready to intervene in the interaction. Stop mumbling, instead speak clearly and&amp;nbsp;look into the eyes of the person you are talking to.(Hint: If you have trouble maintaining eye contact, see the bridge of the nose ofthe other person) .Switch from negative to positive&amp;nbsp;comments,especially when it comes to talking about yourself Instead of saying &quot;I do not think I can do this&quot; experiment &quot;This will be a challenge, but I&#39;m ready for this!&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Once you have tried these ways to increase your confidence quickly, keep it up. Every morning you look in the mirror and tell yourself that you look good and that today is going to be a good day. If you do this, you will be happy with your life and you will achieve your goals&amp;nbsp; before you know it. That&#39;s really what being self confident is all about.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;&gt;It seems absurd when you think about it but the fact is we are our own worst enemies when it comes to achieving happiness in our lives. We tend to beat ourselves up over minor defeats and convince ourselves that we cannot do something before we even try. A persistent pattern of this behavior means we are suffering from low self esteem and we need to do something about it.&lt;br /&gt;
There are many ways to increase your confidence fast. Most of them are self help exercises you can do right now and see results from almost immediately. Just remember that being confident is something only you can do for yourself; no one can do it for you. And when you succeed, you not only feel good about yourself, you know how to be happy with your life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The first step in how to beat low self confidence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;&gt;Is to tell yourself that you are confident. Tell yourself that you are smart, energetic, full of good ideas, and worthy of other peoples’ attention. Fight off negative thoughts like &quot;I can’t&quot; or &quot;I don’t know how.&quot; with positive thoughts like &quot;I’ve never done that but I know I can.&quot; or &quot;Let’s take the first step right now!&quot; Talk to yourself only in positive, never negative, terms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Learn the ins and outs of body language.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Poor posture, a shuffling walk, and looking down instead of up are all signs of an ego in need of help. Walk tall, with your head held high and eyes straight ahead. When speaking to someone, look them in the eye. (If you find this difficult, look at the bridge of their nose; they’ll never suspect a thing.) Sit upright in your chair (never slouch) and, when standing, avoid folding your arms over your chest. (It looks defensive.)&lt;br /&gt;
Never, ever berate yourself for minor mistakes. Most of them are either inconsequential or things you will overcome with practice and experience. Look at them as learning opportunities. And don’t be afraid to take some risks. After all, what is confidence but the belief that you can conquer fear and accomplish things you might never have accomplished before? If you don’t take a chance, you’ll miss an opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;
One thing that many people overlook when learning how to improve self esteem is the need to know how to accept a compliment. It is okay (in fact it’s essential) to feel good about yourself and that includes feeling good about how other people react to you. When someone compliments you, accept it gracefully. Say thank you and compliment yourself on achieving another step towards complete self confidence.&lt;br /&gt;
Low self esteem comes from many roots. Perhaps you developed it as a child at home, in school, or as a result of an event beyond your control. No matter why or how you became its victim, it can be conquered. With a little push in the right direction and steady practice, you’ll feel good about yourself, and feel good about feeling that way, in no time. That’s a feeling you can make last for the rest of your life.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;&gt;Marcus Garvey, the great Jamaican publicist and journalist, is quoted as saying &quot; If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. &quot; If that sounds like you, you need to learn how to gain self confidence fast. Why? Because being confident is a sign that you know how to be happy with your life, regardless of the struggles you may face in it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-GB&quot;&gt;You &amp;nbsp;have a basic belief in your own value and your ability to have and use skills and knowledge to accomplish goals. When you are not self confident you may actually repel others who may find you too depressing or needy to be around. Some of the behaviors that unconfident people exhibit are being overly shy, being critical of themselves to an uncomfortable degree, taking blame for things not under their control, speaking in negative terms, doing things to please others, or being fearful.&lt;br /&gt;
If these are some of your issues, you must find out how to beat low self confidence and how to improve self esteem dramatically. Here are three self help methods to address this issue and arrive at a state where your happiness is no longer jeopardized by your attitude.&lt;br /&gt;
First, you must condition yourself to be confident. The most noticeable thing about this is that you adjust your external image first so you reflect a positive image to yourself and those around you. The way you dress is important at this stage. Always appear well groomed and be certain your clothing is appropriate to the setting, including being clean and well pressed. Walk with assurance, with good posture, and with your head high. Smile. Banish negative thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts and words. Help yourself feel better about yourself and everything around you by listening to upbeat music, reading positive books, and sharing light hearted stories.&lt;br /&gt;
Conditioning is one of the best ways to increase your confidence fast. However, you must remember you’re only treating symptoms and this will only take you so far. The next thing you must do is start aligning yourself with what you’re most passionate about. Many people struggle with self confidence because they bang their heads against the wall trying to become good at something that’s simply a weakness. There are things we naturally aren’t good at and that’s ok. By the same token, we’ve all been given natural talents and those who exude self confidence usually are good at growing these natural talents and using them to succeed in all areas of their lives. &lt;br /&gt;
The third answer to how to improve confidence is perhaps the most difficult and it’s an extension of the first two answers. It involves identifying the habits in your life that contribute to your lack of confidence and eliminating them from your life. Closely examine how you are living your life. Do you get enough sleep? Is your family or life partner a positive influence who supports you in your endeavors? Do you eat a balanced diet? Is your job fulfilling? Any of these things can negatively impact how you feel about yourself so you must address them. When you eliminate bad habits and negative influences from your life, you make room for empowering habits and positive influences to take their place.&lt;br /&gt;
In the end, only you can improve your self confidence. No one can do it for you. Start with conditioning yourself for success and identifying your natural talents and passions. Move on to identifying the negative habits and influences in your life and eliminating them. Before long you will find yourself filled with feelings of self worth and confidence.&lt;br /&gt;
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