Self Confidence Often Leads to Success: 8 Tips on being more confident

One of the traits many successful individuals have in common is the confidence they have in themselves and the decisions they make. An important thing to remember is that while being confident in yourself is greatly important. Your show of confidence in many professional and career oriented situations must be balanced within reason and one must be careful to not convey the appearance of being overly confident. Being articulate in how you display confidence in diffirent situations is key. Below is a helpful list of things that you can do to optimize your confidence in yourself and therefore increase your ability to succeed.

1. Realization
   It’s near impossible to make time for your dreams, to break free from the traditional mold, and to truly be yourself, if you have low self-esteem and self-confidence. You can do this by taking control of your life, and taking control of your self-confidence. By taking concrete actions that improve your competence, your self-image, you can increase that self-confidence, without the help of anyone else.

2. Appearance
   Keeping a good grooming regiment and dressing well will have a positive effect on your self-confidence. You don't have to go out an spend a fortune on an outfit just something that looks good and when you look in the mirror you hare happy with the image of yourself .

3. Our image of ourself
   Imagine you are able to take the image you have in your mind of yourself and edit the parts you dont like so much and replace them with traits you would like. We all have the ability to edit our mental self image and tune it to be one that we feel happy and confident with.

1. Know how to avoid overconfidence
   This ability to know when and how much to exercise your confidence in yourself and your standings or decision , to what degree you display your assertiveness so that your confidence is not mistaken for outright egotism.
   Big egos are prevalent in almost every corporation and business, for the most part allowing an inflated ego to influence an important business decision or how we participate and interact with our peers and teams is very likely to backfire in the long run. It is always wise to be able to distinguish when it is one's ego prevailing in a situation or a reasonable amount of confidence in your individual stance. While being confident can be of great help , being able to exhibit a controlled amount of confidence will have a positive effect.

2. Believe in your ability
   Many may find themselves in positions where they feel a lacking of confidence in themselves. This could be due to feeling inept when it comes to solving a problem which they are not well versed in or it could be that one feels that someone else could be far better at figuring out the problem at hand. We all have things we excel with more than somethings which we are not as good with; nobody is a master at everything. What is important to learn is to exercise a good level of confidence in the willingness and ability to become better at something . Displaying a willingness to take on a new challenge will help attract the right people willing to share their knowledge . Simply not doubting your ability to do something you have never done before will compel you to take on the unknown.

3. Display A willingness to Learn
   Rather than timidly shying away from attempting things we know are not our area of expertise , when given the opportunity to try something challenging then your best exercise in self confidence is to embrace the challenge and believe in your ability to learn to do something . By doing this not only will you further your own knowledge and abilities but you will automatically attract those who are willing to guide and help you simply because of them recognizing your willingness to learn and your belief in yourself. This is especially true in team work environments , someone is much more willing tote an individual under their wing and mentor them when they can recognize the individuals drive and belief in being able learn something new.
   Even in a solo situation the courage to take on new and unknown challenges is an excellent exercise that will help tremendously in building your overall self confidence. Whether it be expanding on your technical knowledge , your creative pastimes or recreational hobbies ; if there are areas for you to expand your knowhow and ability dont be afraid to take the challenge head on. Know that you will probably make mistakes and at times feel frustrated and hopeless but if you persevere and remind yourself of the obstacles you overcome your confidence in yourself will keep you from giving up.

4. Be Prepared
   Think of your life as an exam, if you dont study and prepare yourself for the exam then you will not feel very confident in yourself and the outcome will likely be subpar. But if you study and thoroughly prepare yourself for the exam your chances of succeeding increase just as your confidence in yourself will.

Know yourself and you will win all battles. – Sun Tzu

1. Know Yourself
   Get to know yourself. Begin to listen to your thoughts. Begin writing a journal about yourself, thoughts you have about yourself, and analyze why you have such negative thoughts. Then think about the good things about yourself, the things you can do well, the things you enjoy. Begin to think what your limitations are, and if they’re realistic limitations or just ones you’ve acquired artificially. Delve deep inside yourself, and you’ll come out ) with a stronger, greater self-confidence.

This can be applied whether you are CEO, the manager of a department or any other position within a company , no matter where you stand and who your boss is; your show of good self confidence as opposed to a purely ego driven self presentation it will be noticed.
As a CEO or manager it is important to be confident in your decisions regarding how you are leading your team or company, your confidence will be respected and set a good example for those who depend on your leadership.
Coming across as simply ego driven will have a negative effect on how those who depend on your leadership perceive you , on the surface people may appear to have respect for you, but this is a superficial notion of respect and ultimately the respect and credibility held of those around you is greatly diminished.