Featured in Medium: 4 Self-Practices to Improve Confidence
It’s easy to think that everyone around you except for you has it all figured out. Now that we can compare our lifestyles with strangers’ with just a quick swipe of the finger, it seems as though our consciousness is consistently flooded with images of people who just have it “together”.
I hope you’ll still read this even if I offer a spoiler here: no one has it all figured out. Life isn’t a prize to be won or a game to be mastered. It’s a chance to figure out who we are, what we want to contribute to society and which relationships we want to nurture along the way.
This is where confidence — or, in Latin, “self-trust” — comes in. When we trust ourselves, our own intuition and our own ability to make ourselves happy, we can navigate life’s obstacles with more dexterity. This doesn’t mean we won’t have challenges; it means we know we can listen to our inner voice to get us through those tough times.
But if confidence isn’t so complicated overall, then how does it become so elusive? How can we grab hold of it and make it work for us? Below, I’ll walk through four practices and mind-shifts that can point you in the direction of self-confidence.