8 Ways to Boost Your Self Esteem

Life coach Rebekah Fensome explains that lack of self confidence can negatively affect one or all areas of your life and has suggested eight ways in order to help boost your self-esteem.

Writing a list of your top seven qualities and carrying them around with you is a good way to remind yourself who you are and what makes you unique and special. This is turn will help you to appreciate yourself.

Take time to think about times when you have made a success out of something. Spend time writing these acheivments down in a list and refresh your memory about how you did this and how it felt to achieve certain goals.

Keep a tally of how many times you speak negatively about yourself. This allows you to be aware of how many times a day you are telling people negative infomation about yourself and will often lead to you decreasing external negative dialouge.

Look at others in a constructive and positive way rather than negatively comparing youreself against them.
Pick up words and body language that they use and add them to your own repertoire.

This is an important part of building self confidence. The best way to accept compliments is to look the person in the face , smile and say ‘thank-you’.

Pick three strong statements, which literally make a negative self belief into a positive one. For example, if you believe you’re not a confident person then ‘I am a confident person’ should be one of your daily positive affirmations. Say your positive affirmations out loud while looking in the mirror as this makes them stronger because you’re connecting with yourself.

Use constructive questioning on yourself to ensure the irrational voice gets less airtime than the rational voice. Keep practicing this, as it will give you an overwhelming sense of control over your negative inner voice, which is invaluable in many situations in life.

Eat well and try not to drink too much alcohol. Going to sleep early and exercising will all indicate to yourself that your worthy of being cared for.

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