This Simple Strategy Will Boost Your Confidence Every Day

You want to have more confidence. That feeling of being comfortable in your own skin. The belief in yourself. The mindset that you can achieve anything you set your mind to.

Confidence is a trait not many have in today’s world. It is often emulated by insecure people. But if you look past their display of “confidence”, you can see who they truly are.

Don’t try to follow those people’s leads.

If you aren’t confident right now, that’s ok!

Be honest with yourself about it. Take responsibility for your lack of confidence. Honesty and responsibility are crucial components of confidence. If you do these things, you’ll immediately boost your confidence!

And after you are honest and take responsibility, you can begin to really improve your confidence.

Today, we’ll take a look at a strategy that will improve your confidence every day.

Let’s dive in, shall we?

Why is confidence important?

Confidence is powerful.

It’s the belief in yourself. The feeling of certainty. The feeling that you know you’re on the right path.

Confidence gets you places in life. It can get you a new job, a romantic partner, a good deal in a negotiation, and more.

Confidence boosts your perceived status. If you’re confident, people will treat you differently. They’ll respect you more. They’ll be more willing to listen to your advice. And they’ll be more willing to work with you.

Having confidence is crucial to surviving and thriving in the world.

If you aren’t confident, other people will notice. They’ll jump at the opportunity to deceive, manipulate, exploit, and misrepresent you.

Being confident in yourself gives you protection against other people’s agendas, which may not be in your best interest.

What is this strategy?

There are many things that you can do to boost your confidence.

You can invest in yourself. Lift weights. Lose weight. Quit bad habits, improve your sleep, and so on.

But there is one strategy that encompasses all of the many ways you can boost your confidence.

This strategy is simple. Keep the promises you make to yourself.

That's it.

It’s a simple yet overlooked concept.

When you make a promise to yourself, you’re telling yourself that you’re going to do something.

When you don’t do it, you break your trust with yourself. You lied to yourself.

This is a confidence killer.

If you can’t be honest with yourself, how can you be honest with other people?

You can’t.

How does this strategy boost your confidence?

Keeping promises builds your trust in yourself. And your confidence increases.

Keeping the promises you make to yourself builds your character.

It makes you honest with yourself. Builds your trust. Makes you take action to get what you want. And it makes you take responsibility for your goals.

Each time you keep your promise to yourself, it’s a vote in favor of the person you want to be.

How to use this strategy

This strategy encompasses all other ways you can build confidence. This means that everything you use to boost your confidence is a promise that you make to yourself.

For example, if you want to lose weight, you promise yourself that you're going to take care of yourself... And improve your quality of life.

If you set a goal or have a desire to improve, you must work towards it.

And you must give it your best effort.

Don’t work towards it but give up after a few weeks because it’s difficult.

See it through to the end. Even if you don’t reach your goal.

If you’re not making progress, reflect on whether you’re doing the right things. Or if you need to change something. If needed, make changes to how you’re working towards your goal.

But never give up on your goal.

Wrapping up

Building confidence is all about building character.

Honesty, trustworthiness, responsibility, and self-respect are the traits you need.

Acting in alignment with these traits gives you boosts of confidence every day.

Don’t lie to yourself. If you mess up, take responsibility. It’s your fault. Not someone else’s. It's not the world’s fault. Not the system’s fault. It’s your fault.

Responsibility is empowering. It gives you the ability to find solutions and work towards them.

Keep the promises you make to yourself, no matter how small these promises are.