One proven technique for building your confidence is to practice daily affirmations. An affirmation is merely making a statement to the universe about what you expect to happen positively. Using the declaration allows you to set your mind to make positive changes and perform better at work, at home, and everywhere.
You can look up affirmations online that have already been creating and use them, or you can learn to create your own affirmations that build confidence.
To create your own confidence-building affirmations, which are just positive statements, understand how you’ll use them by devoting time throughout your day to repeat them intentionally, and to also repeat them at random when you need the extra boost before doing something.
If you lack confidence, you likely have low self-esteem either because you have made a lot of mistakes in your life, or simply because you were raised in a way that limited your ability to have self-confidence, or just because it happens to be part of your genetic makeup to lack confidence. No matter the reasons for your lack of confidence about anything you can help build your confidence by using positive affirmations.
A good affirmation starts with understanding what you are afraid of, along with an understanding of your goal. Then, you’ll want to give it a positive spin.
For example, if you are taking swimming lessons because you don’t know how to swim and fear the water, you need to build your confidence level so that you can get in the water, trust your coach, and learn to swim without all the fear and with more excitement and gratitude.
To create an affirmation about this, you might include statements about the coach, the class, or how you’ll learn to swim.
“I love getting in the water and swimming with my licensed, trained, and experienced professional swimming coach.”
You may also want to approach the affirmation based on your fear of the water by simply making statements like, “I feel calm, happy, satisfied, or safe in the water.”
If you’re nervous about the coach, you might want to make some affirmations about the coach such as, “I trust my swimming coach to teach me how to swim safely.”
Anytime you identify a fear response, change it to a positive and opposing response. For example, if you are fearful of putting your head underwater, you can make an affirmation about that before it happens such as, “I feel calm when I put my head under the water.”
Even though it’s the opposite of what you are feeling, if you can say these affirmations repeatedly anytime you feel the trepidation coming up, you will start to feel better about your actions.