The confidence of believing in yourself is something that we learn throughout life, through the experiences, achievements and ambition you have to grow every day in the professional and personal sphere.
“Be the best version of yourself, you will not be able to live in true passion, if you settle for a life that is less than what you are capable of living.” Nelson Mandela.
Not having the self-confidence tomake what you dream come true is a fundamental part of being able to achieve goals and in this article we will give you some tools to increase your confidence and believe in yourself.
Remember that sabotaging yourself is harmful when you want to have security, staying in your comfort zone, then we will make you understand why you should believe in yourself.
What does it mean to believe in oneself?
Believing in oneself means having the ability to visualize something that is desired, in the workplace, loving, personal, fulfill a dream, start an enterprise, all with the desire and enthusiasm, having a positive attitude to achieve it.
On the other hand, believing in yourself is having high self-esteem in any situation, overcoming fears and becoming strong, breaking down obstacles and having the ability to see everything in a positive way being honest with you.
Recommendations for believing in oneself
How can you believe in yourself, without bad opinions affecting you? Well, we will give you a series of tips so that you never let any person or anything affect your confidence in any episode of your life.
1. Accept yourself as you are
Cultivate the good things, enough so that the unpleasant things do not become part of your daily habit. Stand in front of the mirror and feel proud of yourself, be short, tall, colored, with a normal body, accept your virtues and learn to grow with them.
2. Start acting little by little
Every start is difficult due to the multiple scenarios that can affect us when it comes to executing what we want, so you must have clear, planned objectives that little by little make you feel more confident about the step you are taking towards what you want. Do not rush.
3. Identify qualities and capabilities
You will ask yourself, how can I do it? Studies carried out at the Latin American Technological University (UTEL)showed that you can start by paying more attention and putting all your interests into practice, developing a list of activities and very importantly, among all the qualities you have, give greater strength to those you are more passionate
4. Keep values in mind before facing challenges
Having and contributing value is one of the first values for the continuous challenges that you are going to face. Keep in mindThe Values , the truth, the goodness, the beauty, the ethics of the customs and thus you can face the continuous challenges of the life.
5. Learn to interpret fears
Facing those fears that we have in any situation makes us strong and less vulnerable to them.
Raise your self-esteem by facing them, but first you must identify them to work on improving and overcome them. Let your mind create ideas, while you are facing a situation or moment in which fear overwhelms you.
6. Turn weaknesses into strengths
The first thing you should do is identify your weaknesses, starting from that point learn to love yourself with them. You must have the desire to turn your weakness into a strength, but doing it for yourself, not for your environment or society.
Talking about your beliefs or weaknesses without fear is another point in favor that you can use to turn your weakness into strength.
7. Make small decisions daily
This helps to improve when making big decisions and, in turn, they will become the steps that you will take day by day and that will lead you to be the person you want to be.
As Orison Swett Marden said in his extraordinary work “The Power of Believing in Yourself” : “The confidence that comes with believing in yourself is the best investment in the world.”
That’s why small daily decisions will make you add successes and mistakes that will ultimately make you grow as a person.
8. Take a winning stance
Adopting a position of triumph or power helps us in any facet of life, this was said by psychologist Amy Cuddy, a professor at Harvard Business School , who demonstrated that body posture makes hormonal changes, these help in our physiology, our intentions , behavior and our perception.
9. Try to comfort yourself in the face of failure
Leave catastrophic thoughts behind as real, observing your personality, making it strong, and maturing. Practice resilience, putting thoughts of failure aside.
10. Visualize what you want to become and have
Believing in yourself implies that you must visualize what you want, by doing the visualization you will make life more full of opportunities, make your mind always be in constant thoughts of achievement, triumph and goals that you are going to achieve.
Why is it important to believe in yourself?
Believing in yourself makes you grow as an individual before you and society, it makes the possibilities grow and new opportunities appear, so that you will be convinced of your worth.
Having a position full of optimism, wanting to learn and believing that you can achieve anything, are steps that you must take by making small daily decisions that make great opportunities appear.
Trust in yourself and in the attributes that you can offer to the world, believing in yourself is a door of possibilities to achieve professional and personal goals and to acquire experiences to continue growing in different areas.

University Professional in the area of Human Resources, Postgraduate in Occupational Health and Hygiene of the Work Environment, 14 years of experience in the area of health. Interested in topics of Psychology, Occupational Health, and General Medicine.