There’s a myth out there that confidence is something you’re born with. Either you have it or you don’t.

That’s 100% false.

Confidence isn’t something you are born with, it’s something you can acquire.

If you think powerful CEOs, Olympic athletes, and world-class performers are born confident…you’re wrong.

Confidence is just a habit that is developed over time. As Robert Kiyosaki said, “Confidence comes from strict discipline and training.”

Here are seven ways you can train your mind and body to think, feel, and act confidently in any situation in life.

5 Ways to Regain Your Confidence

1. Use Positive Self Talk

What are you saying to yourself on a regular basis? Is your self-talk empowering and positive or negative and pessimistic?

As brain expert, Jim Kwik said, “Studies show that negative self-talk is associated with higher levels of stress and depression.”

A lot of people say things to themselves they would never say to other people. Why is that?

Here’s the thing, your brain is always listening to what you’re saying. Not only what you say to others but the interval talk about your own life.

While I’m not recommending that you lie to yourself because some self-talk is constructive and can actually make you better. But some of it is so negative, it hurts the ability to make progress.  

For example, let’s say you’re overweight right now and know that you need to lose weight. First off, congratulate yourself for having the awareness that you need to lose weight to live a better life. Now, the self-talk comes in.

Negative self-talk would be statements like:

• “I’m so fat”
• “I’ve always been this way, I can’t ever lose weight.”
• “I’m always letting myself down and can’t ever achieve my goals.”

On the other hand, positive self-talk would sound like:

• “I’m excited to get in the gym and start releasing this weight for good.”
• “I’m proud of myself for having the discipline to wake up early and go on a run.”

You have to make a choice to be optimistic and engage in positive self-talk. Don’t beat yourself up for whatever you’re going through.

Become your own best friend and use self-talk to fuel massive changes in your life. A good rule of thumb, if you wouldn’t’ say something to someone else, don’t say it to yourself!

2. Get It Done

Confidence is built on accomplishment. If you achieve small and big goals, you’re going to feel much better about yourself.

It all begins with your activity on a daily basis. One of my coaches, Jim Fortin, talks about the importance of having self-integrity. If you say you’re going to do something, you do it. Whether you feel like it or not.

By doing the things you need to do, regardless of how you’re feeling, you will develop self-integrity with yourself. By keeping the promises you make to yourself will make that part of your identity. 

This will program your mind to make completing tasks part of who you are.

Think about it, you will respect yourself if you say you’re going to do something and you do it. Not to mention, belief in yourself will come easier, because you know you are not afraid of the work.  

This type of daily accomplishment will give you tons of confidence to help you reach your short-term and long-term goals effortlessly.  

3. Visualize Yourself Being Confident

Creative visualization is one of the best ways to help you achieve any goal in life, including the goal to have more confidence within yourself. Olympic athletes, CEOs and high performers understand the power of visualization. Because as Napoleon Hill said, “What the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.”  

Visualization works because your brain doesn’t understand the difference between imagination and reality. If you visualize yourself being confident and showing up in the world how you want to on a regular basis, your brain will start to believe.

The trick is to get into a very relaxed state (usually after meditation), close your eyes and imagine being a confident version of yourself. Whether it’s at work, in social settings or speaking with strangers. Imagine yourself carrying conversations, being smooth and people liking you.

Do this over and over again. The brain learns through repetition.

The more you can ingrain this feeling in your nervous system, the faster it will happen in the external world.

4. Help Others

Let’s say you’re great at sales or a sport but you’ve lost confidence for some reason. It’s at these moments where it’s vital to monitor self-talk and remember how good you are. One way to show yourself that is to help others.

Find someone who is trying to do what you’re doing and help them. Instead of focusing on your own temporary confidence issues, volunteer, mentor, or teach someone else. Not only will you see them grow, you will help them move forward.

5. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Think back to the last time you had fear in life and faced it head-on. Maybe it was public speaking or skydiving. If you think about it, I’m sure you scared of it because you weren’t very confident. When you feel in control, you’re not afraid. When you have a level of comfort with something, it’s not scary.

Every single wildly successful person has been afraid, and they’ve kept working and taking risks anyway. Everyone who has achieved anything significant fought past the fear and focused on the task at hand.

The next time you feel the fear, think about how much you want to achieve your goal, then put your fear to the side, and keep going. The trick is to go one day at a time.

Final Thoughts on Confidence

If you’re struggling in your own confidence battle, keep going. Use these tips to help push you forward.

Remember, if you keep doing what you’ve always done, you will get what you’ve always gotten. Mix it up and find the confidence within yourself to achieve your biggest goals and dreams.

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In 2009 he was even included in Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.” Simply put, George Clooney is a confident individual who can help you feel the same. 

George Clooney Quotes That Will Make You More Confident & Successful

“Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.”― George Clooney

The more you fail the quicker you will succeed, as long as you learn from your mistakes. Too many people fear failure and end up never accomplishing anything.

But, if you have that attitude that failure is inevitable in some way, you are prepared for it in the future. Use your failures to learn, adapt, grow until you succeed.

“You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.”― George Clooney Quotes

In business and life, flops or setbacks happen. Focus on giving any opportunity you get your best effort. If the project or team you are working on flops you will know you gave maximum effort.

“Anyone would be lying if they said they didn’t get lonely at times.”— George Clooney

Yes, even George Clooney feels lonely at times. But make sure to not confuse loneliness with spending time alone with your thoughts.

In today’s busy, social media filled world it’s never been more important to disconnect and check in with yourself. If you aren’t constantly checking in on yourself and your well being it is easy to burn out.

Spend time meditating, taking walks, and disconnecting from technology. The more you know yourself the easier you can turn your dreams into a reality.

“As you get older and ease your way into being a character actor you have to be comfortable with where you are in life and career, and I’m very comfortable with what I’m doing – working on projects I’m proud of.” ― George Clooney

Whether you’re an actor, entrepreneur or employee, the more you know who you are the more enjoyment you will find in life. Once you become self-aware you can begin to learn what you’re good at, what you enjoy, and what you hate to do.

Once identified, spend your life working on the things that make you proud and that you enjoy working on.

“I’m kind of comfortable with getting older because it’s better than the other option, which is being dead. So I’ll take getting older.”— George Clooney

Getting older isn’t the end of the world, it’s part of life. Understand that you can control you how you look and feel by managing your fitness and attitude. The more you work on your mind and body the more you won’t care about aging.

“When you’re young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that’s the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you that you’re a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.”― George Clooney

Getting comfortable is a recipe for disaster. Stay committed and focused on what you are trying to achieve in your life.

Never settle for just being average.

“I had to stop going to auditions thinking, ‘Oh, I hope they like me.’ I had to go in thinking I was the answer to their problem.” ― George Clooney Quotes

Confidence is an inside job. Grow your confidence and belief in yourself by keeping the little promises you make to yourself.

Done over time, you will become more confident and it will show externally to others.

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A new career. New relationships. Moving to a new city. Life can take turns without giving us enough time to prepare.

Little do we know that our primal brain is not well-built for change. It treats uncertainty as a potential threat.

Uncertainty can feel like fear. It is like stumbling upon a tiger in the jungle. This is why you want to run away from uncertainty.

But guess what?

You too can break through the veil of uncertainty and eliminate self-doubt. Here is how:

1. Change Your Focus To Eliminate Self-Doubt

If you are more focused on negative possibilities than positive outcomes, don’t be surprised if you have self-doubt. Negative thoughts create negative self-talk: “I am not enough”, “I failed in the past, I will never succeed, It could go wrong”.

Thoughts translate into actions: “I will never succeed” translates into inaction and apathy. Because when you don’t think you can succeed, why would you even try?

What is the catch here?

Your focus. You need to stop finding the reasons you will fail. Stop feeding your self-doubt.

Focus on why you can succeed and you’ll attract the resources you need to make it a reality.

2. Create A Vision That Pulls You

You have to think of the future. But this isn’t the same as daydreaming. You need to create a specific pathway to your dreams in your mind.

But why?

As the legendary military strategist and the author of The Art of War, Sun Tzu, said, “Every battle is won before it’s ever fought.” You have to win the battle first in your mind.

Feel how it would feel to achieve your goals. Imagine in rich detail. The more detailed and real, the better. The vision has to excite you and pull you toward it.

Because when your goals don’t matter to you, you have to push hard every moment. But when the vision pulls you, you enjoy the process.

3. Make Real Decisions

A real decision is the one that is followed by action. When you make a real decision, you exercise your power as the creator of your life. You take back the power from your doubts.

A great way to make real decisions is to burn your boats. Cut off all other options that hinder your progress. For example, if your goal is to build a seven-figure business, you may enroll in a business coaching program and stop working for low-paying clients.

4. Work Hard, But Work Smart Too

Nothing works unless you do. Work hard but also work smart. How to work smart? Seek constant feedback from the experts in your field.

A great way to speed up your journey is modelling. Model the people who are already successful in your field. Find how they reached to that level. What resources did they use? What kind of habits did they form? Model their strategy.

5. Create Rituals To Have A Solid Foundation

Vision and strategy are for the future. But in the end, everything comes down to the present. The present is where your power lies. It’s the only thing you can influence. So create rituals to harness its power.

Tony Robbins says that your rituals form the standards at which you operate in life. Find what rituals are necessary to get you to your goals. Create rituals that keep you in a peak state throughout the day.

Some rituals work for everyone. Exercise in the morning. Express gratitude. Express love and appreciation for those around you.

6. Emotional Commitment Is The Fuel – Find Your Why

Brendon Burchard calls it “raising necessity”, Oprah calls it “finding your calling”, and Tony Robbins calls it “finding your purpose”. Whatever you call it, if you want true fulfillment and not just material achievement, then you need to know why your goals matter to you.

Tony Robbins asked himself a central question throughout his life: “What improves the quality of people’s lives?” And this is his ‘why’, his reason to be a life coach.

When you have found your why, working hard is no longer a burden, it feels right. It feels true to who you are. You are no longer negotiating your integrity and values just to survive and belong.

So take back your power from your doubts. With relentless focus and an emotionally fueled commitment toward your vision, you can face the proverbial tiger and create unbreakable certainty in life.

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