If confidence is an issue for you work through these self confidence building steps. Building self confidence is very much about stretching yourself, possibly out of your confort zone. However the reward is worth it.
If you have tried improving your self confidence but are struggling you may need to go deeper to get to the internal blockers to your confidence. Hypnotherapy is perfectly safe and an excellent tool for boosting your confidence. If you have any concerns about how hypnotherapy works you can read about how safe hypnotherapy is and put your mind at ease.
Another excellent book which resonates with my way of thinking is Dr Robert Anthony's "The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence" which is very easy reading and full of useful information.
Finally if you are still struggling please feel free to contact me to help you move yourself forward.
Building self confidence can be very difficult, especially if your lack of confidence is something you have lived with for a long time.
Public speaking, approaching people, trying new things are all common situations where confidence is an issue.
However it is important to understand the difference between confidence and esteem as although often related, they are two very different things. Confidence is all about your belief in your ability to do things. Esteem is your belief in yourself as a person. It is about the value you put on yourself as a human being.
Although related it is possible to be a confident person and to have low esteem, even if only in some areas. Someone confident in a work environment may feel bad about their physical appearance for example.
Likewise someone with reasonable self esteem can lack confidence at times. For example, I am not confident in my ability to fly a plane. I've never had any lessons, I know nothing about flying aircraft so it would be silly of me to say that I could.
If I had low self esteem as well I may add comments such as "I'm too stupid to learn to fly a plane. I'm just an idiot." Yet with a healthy belief in myself I recognise that with the right amount of education and training I am able to learn to pilot an aircraft. I may take a little longer than some people if my talents don't lie in that direction, but that is not a problem, just a fact and it does not worry me.
Self Confidence Test
Even when you know what changes you should make in our lives a lack of confidence or low self esteem can severely hamper your efforts to change.
To find out if you have an issue with your confidence take this quick confidence test. If you think self esteem is an issue for you check out the self esteem section of this website for more information.