1. Groom yourself and Dress nicely: Portrait yourself to others in a manner that creates a desired impression. So consider these if you want to project a professional image for yourself. When you groom yourself and dress well, you are saying decision makers take me serious because I am serious. They would definitely buy the packaging before they see the real you. By grooming yourself, it is amazing how much difference shower, shave and a little perfume can make in your feeling of self-confidence and for your self-image. Dressing nicely doesn’t mean wearing 50,000 blazer suit or expensive shoes. It’s all about wearing something that fit your outing and your personality. If you dress nice, you will feel good about yourself. You will feel successful, presentable and ready to tackle the world.

2. Get to know yourself: Discover your strengths and weaknesses. To overcome your weaknesses, identify it and apply principles to overcome it. Dig deep within yourself, and you’ll come out (eventually) with even greater self-confidence.

3. Photoshop your self-image: what image are you creating for yourself? Our self-image means so much to us, more than we often realize. People see us the way we see ourselves. Self- image is the reflection of how we see ourselves and how we portrait ourselves for others to see. We create a mental picture of ourselves and this goes a long way to determine our self-confidence. . However, this mental picture might a true reflection of us or a false one. But this picture isn’t fixed and immutable. You can change it. Use your mental Photo shopping skills, and work on your self-image. If it’s not a very good one, change it. Figure out why you see yourself that way, and find a way to fix it.

4. Think positive and Act positive: You have to learn to be aware of your self-talk, the thoughts you have about yourself and what you’re doing. You can learn how to replace negative thoughts with positive ones by learning how to recognize negative talk and soon you will learn the trick that change everything in your life. Also try to imagine negative thoughts as bug and vigilantly lookout for these bugs. When you caught one, stomp on it (mentally of course) and squash it. Kill it dead. Then replace it with positive one. However, it one thing to think positive, it is another thing to act on it. Action, actually, is the key to developing self- confidence. Act in a positive way, talk to people in a positive way, put in energy into your actions. You will soon start to notice a difference.

5. Be grateful: Life can be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. So look backward with gratitude and look forward with confidence. You might be thinking your life has not been perfect the way you wanted but when you look around, you would notice that your life is more perfect than others around you. I’m a firm believer in gratitude because being grateful of what you have in life and for what others have given you, is a very humbling activity. It can also be a very positive and rewarding activity that will improve your self-image.

6. Get prepared: Remember the self-confidence you have whenever you are well prepared for an exam. It shows in our before entering the exam hall. Likewise if you haven’t studied, you won’t have much confidence in your abilities to do well on the exam. Now think of life as your exam and prepare for it. One important key to success is self-confidence. A key to self-confidence is preparation. – Arthur Ashe


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