Self-confidence is an attitude about one’s skills and abilities. It means you accept and trust yourself and have a sense of control in your life. Feeling confident depends on the situation. The concept of self-confidence is commonly used as self-assurance in one’s personal judgment, ability, power, etc. One’s self confidence increases from experiences of having satisfactorily completed particular activities. It is a positive belief that in the future one can generally accomplish what one wishes to do. Self-confidence is not the same as self-esteem, which is an evaluation of one’s own worth, whereas self-confidence is more specifically trust in one’s ability to achieve some goal, which one meta-analysis suggested is similar to generalization of self-efficacy.
Here are some ways to build high self-confidence.
1. Clarify your values and set goals
your values are the guiding forces that tell you what is important to you. your values will determine many things such as how you act within your family, community and culture, The decisions you make, how you behave, the habits you develop, the ideals you hold dear, the rules you live by and the goals you dream of achieving. You can feel great about yourself by setting goals for yourself and trying to meet them.
2. Success in personal relationship:
Practice self-acceptance for greater self esteem. We are all unique. Having good self-esteem means that you love, respect, and trust yourself. You feel confident about who you are. Your self-esteem is something very personal.
It’s the way that you feel about yourself and how you think that others feel about you. Everyone has something that makes them special. What makes you special?
3. Communicating effectively with others:
learning how to communicate effectively is one of the best things that you can do. It’s important to know how to express your feelings and thoughts to others clearly and directly. You can deal with different situations and make good decisions by learning how to communicate well. Sharing your feelings is hard to do, but communication is the key to understanding.
A large part of knowing how to express yourself involves knowing how to be firm when it’s time to express your feelings. This means being assertive. You can state your opinions, stand up for others, and ask for something you want or need without apologies.
4. Health and self-confidence:
There is no doubt about it: increasing your health and eating balanced meals will dramatically enhance your self-image and your self-esteem. When you eat good food and you control your weight, you have more energy, you move faster. As you move faster, you do a lot more, and better. And as you do more, your self-confidence grows up.
To have a healthy body you must give it all the nutrients it needs to grow and develop. But how do you do that? First of all, you need to understand that there are no good or bad foods, only good and bad eating patterns
5. Analyze your strengths and weaknesses:
First, you need to recognize that you have tremendous possibility to succeed and that you have strength, ability and character to achieve anything you want. You have one or more areas of excellence. Take the time to identify it or them and capitalize on them continuously. What are you interested in? What is your passion? What do you like to do? Harness your strengths and put them into service for others.
6. Practice mental fitness:
Mental fitness is like physical fitness. Mind programming, positive thoughts are essential for your well-being. You want positive emotions, “positive” actions and a positive life so you need positive thoughts. It’s that simple.
According to the law of attraction, you will attract people and opportunities in harmony with your dominant thoughts. You can program your mind so you will attract all that you need to achieve your goals: people, money and circumstances. When you build high self-confidence, you’re capable of great things, things you never thought possible. Self confidence will bring you to the summit, you will see more clearly, you will feel sharper and you will know that there is nothing or nobody but you that can stop you from success in life, financially, personally, emotionally, professionally and the most important with your family.
Importance of self confidence in a student’s life:
Confidence level in students is an important factor in educational success. As more students are facing bullying and harassment, confidence in students can suffer and when this occurs, grades often suffer. Building confidence in students is one of the most important step parents can take to ensure an atmosphere of learning. If a child is suffering from bullying, immediate steps must be taken to correct the situation and rebuild the level of confidence in these students. When a child loses self-esteem, they may lose motivation in learning. By building confidence in students, parents can safeguard the most important ingredient to success that is motivation.
Confidence in students is vital for his or her success. The amount of self-confidence a child possesses will affect his or her educational goals. If a child loses confidence in school, his or her grades will ultimately be affected. When a student’s self-confidence suffers, a child may give up on his or her hopes, dreams and plans. They may feel that they are unworthy of obtaining their goals or it is impossible to achieve them. Building confidence in students can help prevent student dropout rates, ensure that kids maintain their love for learning and help them achieve their dreams and goals. There is no denying to the fact that the relationship between a student’s confidence and educational success is intertwined. Self-confidence is one’s ability to judge his own social and personal standing with respect to his environment. Self-confidence is something that is influenced by factors like upbringing, work environment and the level of dedication. High self-confidence is an important factor in improving business ties and balancing personal life. One of the best ways to improve confidence is to engage kids in various self-esteem activities for students. By boosting self-esteem in students, children who may come from a less than desirable home setting can learn skills that foster a sense of community and respect. By ensuring that a student’s self-esteem is healthy, the environment for learning becomes one where education and learning thrives. Self-esteem activities for students are an excellent way to help boost a child’s confidence and increase learning.
(The author a teacher of the School Education Department is presently posted at Govt High School Brakpora Anantnag. Views are his own) [email protected]