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What actions and activities make you feel purposeful?, What does feeling self-assured mean to you?.

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In this third part of our, How to Build Confidence Series, we define 12 of the powerful benefits of increasing self-confidence. These benefits extend deeper and wider than most people realize. Increasing your self-confidence will benefit you professionally if you are a leader, manager, sales rep, individual contributor. It will benefit you personally by helping you lead your family and it even helps you feel and others to perceive you as sexier. Yes, confidence is sexy!

1. Being your best under stress. Athletes, musicians and actors will attest to the importance of a high level of confidence. When you're confident, you perform up to your potential and you want to perform your best when it counts the most, when under pressure.

2. Influencing others. Self-confident people often influence others more readily. This helps when selling an idea or product or negotiating at work or home.

3. Having leadership and executive presence. Self-confidence plays a big part in leadership and executive presence. You create such presence by how you think, act (including how you carry your body) and use your voice.

4. Exuding a more positive attitude. When you feel confident about yourself, you believe you have an important and meaningful place in the world, giving you a positive attitude.

5. Feeling valued. When you're confident, you know what you excel at and that you have value.

6. Rising to the top. Looking for a promotion? The more confidence you have, the more likely you are to be promoted.

1. Being sexier. Did you know that confidence is sexy? I wrote an article about it, which I published on my website and on YourTango.com. It's one of my most popular articles, and it cracks me up that Google ranks me as number one for the keyword "confidence is sexy."

2. Reducing negative thoughts. Greater self-confidence allows you to experience freedom from self-doubt and negative thoughts about yourself.

3. Experiencing more fearlessness and less anxiety. Greater confidence makes you more willing to take smart risks and more able to move outside your comfort zone.

4. Having greater freedom from social anxiety. Becoming more comfortable being yourself reduces concern about what others might think of you. How liberating!

5. Gaining energy and motivation to take action. Confidence gives you positive energy to take action to achieve your personal and professional goals and dreams. The more highly motivated and energized you are, the more likely you are to take immediate action.

6. Being happier. Confident people tend to be happier and more satisfied with their lives than people who lack self-confidence.

The bottom line: Self-confident people are generally more successful.
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Each of the 12 benefits above helps you achieve goals faster and easier, which means you enjoy more success in life. Conversely, lack of confidence means more fear, anxiety and stress, usually resulting in less success.

Join speaker agent Kim Tracy and me in a discussion on the 12 benefits of developing greater self-confidence. You may either watch the video, or read the text below, which was edited to enhance readability.
Kim: Hi I'm Kim Tracy with the Maxwell James Speaker Agency. So excited to be here with Dr. TC North out of Colorado. How are you doing today? Kim: So we are going to be talking about one of our favorite topics. It is the 12 benefits of increasing yourself confidence. And I'm going to guess that you're going to share some benefits that I'm not aware of. TC: Thank you Kim. This is one of my favorite topics and so yes, the extent that confidence affects us really surprises people. I'm going to cover these quickly today and in future interviews, if you want, we'll drive into some depth on any one of them. Does that work? Kim: Absolutely, one-hundred percent. Go for it. TC: I'm going to look at my notes, as you asked me earlier, "Don't you remember all the 12 benefits?". Yes! But I don't necessarily remember all the benefits as I'm saying them. Kim: He's only 25 years old, you guys! TC: [Laughing] With a 64-year-old memory! Number one is being your best under stress and this is really important. I've worked with people who are amazing and best in the world at what they do. What people really want confidence for is to have it when it counts. So I want to start with probably the most important benefit of confidence which is, increasing your confidence allows you to be your best when you're under stress, when it counts the most Kim. The second benefit of greater self-confidence is when you're more confident you're better able to influence others. In conversations, in a family situation or in a business situation, when you're on stage as a presenter, when you are confident, people are willing to listen to you, they believe what you say. They give you more credibility, you are perceived with more "cred" with confidence. The third benefit is having leadership presence, or executive presence. And presence is that vibration that people feel when you show up. It's like, who is this person and what is this person? Do I like them? Do I trust them? Are they confident? Are they scared? People actually trust people who are more confident than they trust somebody who has a lot of anxiety or nervousness. TC: The fourth benefit is exuding a more positive attitude. People always want to be around people who are more positive than negative. And I just saw a piece of research saying that positive people actually live longer than negative people! TC: When you're being confident, people feel more valued in their interaction with you then when you're feeling scared because it's easier to connect when you're confident. So people actually feel more valued. People who are confident tend to rise to the top! And so if it's important to you to be very successful at whatever you're doing by being more confident you're more likely to get to where you want to go. The seventh benefit of greater confidence is - this is funny, I wrote an article ... and Kim this is the most popular article I've written on my website and I've published it a bunch of places. I originally wrote it for a website called YourTango.com which has a lot of sex and relationship stuff, but I was one of their experts - not on sex - on high performance (no I'm not speaking about performance in the bedroom). You can read that article here. Kim: Oh my gosh, this is a PG podcast! TC: I wasn't writing as an expert on relationships, I was the journal's expert on mastering fear and developing confidence. TC: Actually it's the most read article on my website which is really funny and the whole concept is that confidence is sexy! So when you increase your confidence you actually are more sexy to the opposite gender, or whatever gender you're trying to attract. Kim: Guys, keep your head and mind out of the gutter. We're going on to number eight. [Laughing] TC: Having more confidence reduces your negative thoughts, keeps you - as we talked about - more positive, by reducing your negative thoughts, it's easier to be more positive and express your confidence. The 9th benefit of enhancing your self-confidence is you experience more fearlessness and you experience less anxiety. That's really important to most people I've worked with. They want to reduce their fears, they want to reduce their anxiety and they really want to have a sense of more fearlessness as long as it's a rational level of fearlessness not a reckless level. Does that all work for you Kim? TC: The tenth benefit of self-confidence is to have greater freedom from social anxiety. Social anxiety is the fear being with others and the fear of expressing yourself, the fear of being in crowds. I'm introverted and when you're introverted and confident it's easier to be in crowds even if it's not your most natural place to be. Benefit eleven is, more self-confidence increases your energy and motivation. It's easier to take action when you're confident than when you're scared, pretty obvious. And the last one, the twelfth benefit of increasing your self-confidence I really like! It is ... confidence adds to your happiness, adds to your joy. If you think of the opposite as being anxious and nervous and fearful there's no happiness in those states of being. So confident people are literally happier people. Kim: So how do you summarize the benefits of being more self confident. TC: I think the summary is that confident people are able to attain more of what's important to them in life and they're able to live a more satisfying life. Whether it's being successful at work, or successful as a parent, or successful at whatever they do. Just feeling good about yourself. It's just a happier more joyous life. Kim: So give the audience a tip on how to build their self-confidence. TC: So I want to share a tip that comes from a 16-year-old girl who is a stellar athlete that I'm working with. I just was excited to work with her because she's a great kid. And at the end of a session recently she said one of the things that she had learned about confidence, this didn't come from me, it actually came from her dad which I thought was really wise advice. Her dad said, "Just focus on one small thing at a time and get better at that one thing." So she applies that into each practice. In her mind she's only working on one thing in every practice and one thing in every competition and that's a way to build confidence. Kim: That is fantastic. If you would like to bring TC North in for one of his amazing keynotes or workshops please contact me, Kim Tracey through MaxwellJames.net. Thank you so much.
Please contact me if you'd like to discuss personal work with me to build your confidence and presence, you many email me here.

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Do you feel low on confidence and self-esteem today? There are 10 simple ways to help you increase your self-esteem and build confidence in yourself.

What is the meaning of self-esteem?

Each and every one of us have self-esteem. Self-esteem is made up of the thoughts we have about ourselves and plays a role in almost everything we do.

Having healthy self-esteem is really important as it helps you make positive choices in your everyday life, gives you the courage to be your own person, have good relationships and helps you deal with difficult situations.

Did you know that 87% of those who have been bullied felt it had a negative effect on their self-esteem...

Low self-esteem can have harmful effects on your mental health, your decisions about your appearance and ultimately, your future.

It's not easy to like every part of the way you look, but getting stuck on negatives can really bring down your self-esteem.

Other effects of low self-esteem include:

You avoid difficult situations

Sensitive to criticism

Anxiety

Withdrawal from social situations

You are reluctant to trust yourself

It's important to believe, deep down that you can change. Change doesn't necessarily happen easily or quickly, but it can happen.

Still not sure if you have low self-esteem?

It is completely normal to feel negative about yourself from time to time but if this feeling is long-lasting, then you may have low self-esteem.

Picking up on the signs is important so you can build your confidence back up to where it should be.

Take this easy to finish quiz to find out if you need a bit of a boost:

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Here are our top tips and the best ways to build and improve your self-esteem.

1. Challenge bad thoughts about yourself

Replace them with more positive thoughts which celebrate things you're good at. You can do this by writing down a list of at least three things you do well.

Remember this list when you start feeling low, this will help bring yourself back to reality.

2. Take care of yourself

Eating well and exercising boosts endorphins, the body's natural opiates, which make you feel good on the inside and stimulates a more positive mood.

When you exercise, you'll ease stress and feel better about yourself. Having a cheesy dance in your bedroom, or going for a jog around the block are great ways to boost your self-esteem.

3. Relax

The constant feeling of stress can play a huge role in low self-esteem. It makes you feel negative thoughts more often, it reduces your confidence and you'll probably feel too tired to exercise, be social or do a lot of the things you love.

Reducing your stress by taking time out to do something you find relaxing is a great starting point to making yourself feel better.

This can be anything from taking a bath, meditation, gaming, indoor dancing, singing... you name it; if it works for you, it works!

4. Set goals

Take the time every day to think about what you'd like to achieve. Then set yourself realistic goals for each day and keep track of your progress by writing down all your accomplishments.

This can be as simple as finishing off a piece of work or tidying up ( and we all know how challenging this can be!)

You'll feel an enormous sense of accomplishment when you've ticked off everything on your list for the day.

The trick is to not get bogged down by the list; some days you won't manage to get it all done and that's OK too! We all have off days, maybe make a shorter list for the next day and see how you get on?

5. Help someone out

This can be a friend, family member or even a classmate who is struggling with their work or having a tough time at school. You could give them some advice or just be there to listen to a problem.

It's amazing how much our confidence is boosted when we do selfless things - do one thing a week to help someone else without expecting anything in return.

6. Take a different perspective

Look at tricky situations from alternative angles. Try to replace thoughts like 'why should I bother?' with 'I won't know unless I try'.

By looking at a situation through a more realistic lens you'll realise that you actually can do what you want - you just need to apply a bit more positivity!

By doing this every time you have a negative thought, you'll eventually default to this kind of positivity on the regular, and who doesn't love a go-getter? Sometimes we just need to think and try different things to overcome having low self-esteem.

7. Try new things

Our brains are really good at learning new stuff and the more new stuff you learn, the better you get at learning it and the more likely you find things you can be passionate about.

Everyone needs a creative outlet; music, art, dance, games, sewing, cooking, web design - all you need to do is get on YouTube and find some tutorials. All the information you need is out there - it's just waiting for you to watch it.
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8. Surround yourself with people who make you feel good

Sometimes our friends don't make us feel good, and that's okay. You just need to spend your time with other people who appreciate and care about you more. This doesn't even need to be your friends, but they could be family members, online friends or neighbours.

And those friends who aren't helping your mood? Learn whether they are a toxic friend and think about trying to distance yourself from those people who make you feel bad about yourself.

It can be a little tricky at first, but even if they're the most popular kid in school or the coolest person you know, it's really not worth hanging out with them if they make you feel rubbish!

If you need help, we've written an article with 8 steps to help you break up with a toxic friend.

Strengthen friendships and relationships and you'll most certainly feel better about things in the long run!

9. Accept yourself

Nobody is perfect. We all have issues and we all have flaws. Learn to accept your 'flaws' or imperfections and love them, because they are what make you unique. So, work it honey!

Self-acceptance is the key to feeling confident. When people pay you compliments, simply say 'thanks' rather than brushing them aside or countering them with a negative.

10. Keep visual reminders of things that make you feel good

Mementoes are a great way to see all the cool things you've been doing. How about making a 'wall of fame' in your bedroom with snaps of you and your friends?

We are living in an age where we have a camera in our pocket at all times...take more pictures!

Capture those memorable moments and when you look back at them, you'll realise how many awesome things you've done this year!

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