How to Develop Your Self Confidence

How confident are you?  How confident are you about your abilities? How do you feel when you are confident?  How do you feel when you are lacking confidence?  You don’t have to be a highly qualified psychologist to understand that when you feel confident about yourself it feels good!  However as vitally important as it is to feel good about yourself, feeling confident about yourself and your abilities has many other significant benefits.

 A consistent finding in psychological research is a direct correlation between self-confidence and success.  A study of over 700 athletes from 23 different sports concluded that elite performers had higher and more stable levels of self-confidence.  The conclusion was that confidence was a major differentiating factor between elite and non-elite performers.

Psychological research that suggests that high self-confidence leads to individuals selecting more difficult goals, and having greater commitment to achieving these goals once they have been set. This means that having confidence in yourself leads to you attempting more ambitious goals for your life.

Further psychological research suggests that when in stressful situations, individuals low in self-confidence will tend to give up more readily and experience greater anxiety. The self-confident individual will tend to demonstrate greater tenacity and to generally be more relaxed when confronted with challenging situations.

For the person who wants to achieve their full potential, ensuring that they have developed their confidence to its fullest extent has to be an important priority.

In a series of forthcoming blog posts we will discover exactly how to develop our self-confidence!

Stay tuned!

Simon Hazeldine
Founder
Increasing Life
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