Tips to build self confidence and not feel inferior

Building confidence is an ongoing project that requires effort and a willingness to move outside of one’s comfort zone. Here are some tips to build self-confidence:

Practise self-care by exercising regularly, sleeping well, and developing a healthy diet. Taking time to assess your needs can help you identify what makes you feel good about yourself. Practices such as mindfulness and gratitude can also help to reduce stress, improve emotion regulation, and improve sleep.

Look at what you’ve already achieved and think of things you’re good at. Set realistic goals for yourself and practice positive self-talk.

Adopt a growth mindset that encourages you to explore beyond your current skills and knowledge, keeping the possibility of growth in mind. Curate an intentional environment to develop your budding confidence by sharing your experience with a few close friends who are on the same self-development journey.

Find resources in your community like therapists, coaches, podcasts, blogs, and books to help build a foundation for your new confidence.

Get your work done and monitor your progress. Confidence is built on accomplishment, and the best way to reach your goals, big or small, is to break them down into manageable steps.

Stand or sit in a posture of confidence at work. Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy and others have studied the positive effects of confident body postures on our self-perception and behavior.

By practising these tips, anyone can learn how to be more confident in different, powerful ways in the workplace.