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Self-confidence is an essential key to success in any walk of life. People with self-confidence get noticed more, and as a result,  they achieve their goals relatively easily. In contrast, people who lack self-confidence often end up on the losing end of life. You, too, need to build your self-confidence if you want to do well in life. Here are ten tips that can help you improve that elusive self-confidence.

1. Self-confidence is found in people who have healthy self-esteem. They know their worth and act accordingly. An excellent way to improve your worth is to make a list of your accomplishments every day. You will be surprised to know how many positive acts you perform every day in your life, but you overlook. Once you start looking at this list, your self-confidence will boom.

2. Be clear about your goals. If need be, break your goals into smaller, more manageable tasks. Pat yourself every time you achieve a minor goal. It will boost your self-confidence and help you achieve bigger goals.

3. Find a mentor who can help you reach your goal. Most people, who have done well in life, have a mentor who has traveled the same road on which they are traveling today. Meet your mentor regularly, and seek his advice and support as a routine. You will find that you are learning something valuable every day.

4. Socialize with people who are positive and supportive, who like and respect you. Please give them the same support and respect that they give you. Avoid people who are negative and critical of you; they’ll erode your self-confidence. They make you look at your negative self and not your positive self. After some time, you get enveloped in their cynical and pessimistic worldview. This behavior is damaging, so eliminate those friends as soon as you can.

5. Pay attention to how you look. Take pleasure in wearing good clothes and being well-groomed. It makes you feel good and causes people to look at you differently. Remember that every human being wants to be in the company of clever, intelligent, successful people. You can soon be a center of attraction if you radiate a positive, smart look. It can very quickly make the difference between success and failure.

6. Don’t be afraid of failures. Take them in your stride and move on. Say to yourself that you will succeed the next time. Never make the mistake of allowing your losses to overwhelm you. They will force you into a shell and destroy your self-confidence. A better way is to shrug your failures as something inconsequential and take on a new challenge. Of course, you must learn from your mistakes and be realistic about your abilities. People who try to over-reach often fall. It would help if you did not allow that to happen in the name of self-confidence.

7. Keep yourself fit by exercising regularly and controlling your diet. A fit and healthy person is much more active and achieves more in his career. Physical fitness, like self-confidence, glows on your face.

8. Have a wide range of interests, and take an active interest in what’s going on in the world. Meet and talk to a lot of people. Don’t focus all your attention only on your work and on your problems. Divert your attention to new interests and new tasks. This strategy will keep your mind happily occupied and boost your self-confidence.

9. Take part in activities that you do well. You may have excelled at things in the past and then given them up due to lack of time. Return to those activities again and see your self-confidence grow.

10. Pick up a new hobby or craft that interests you. It will keep you occupied. It will also increase your self-confidence as you become more skilled in it.

Try to practice these tips as faithfully as you can and see the difference in your life.

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