We all have days when we doubt ourselves. Everyone struggles with self-doubt at some point in their life. No matter how smart you are, no matter how hard you work, there are times when you feel like you’re a failure. How to stop doubting yourself? Self-doubt is a constant companion. We all have doubts about our abilities, we all have fears.
When your self-belief begins to rise, you discover new options you never thought of. A before desolate and depressing outlook can be now filled with new opportunities and new experiences and create a new exciting positive future.
You now can anticipate the future you once dreaded. Your shiny future is waiting for you, so start from where you are today and choose the right direction towards it.
How are we going to do this? Get through these 4 questions.
If believing in yourself is considered the major cause of success, self-doubt is the main cause of failure. Overcoming self-doubt is for sure part of your development of believing in yourself.
We have seen that without self-esteem is impossible to believe in yourself. You have also to overcome negative thinking and external factors. Nevertheless, you may believe that you don’t have the means to better yourself or that you don’t deserve a better life. You can have roadblocks that are impeding your self-belief to blossom.
You first you have to identify what’s holding you back. Here are three common self-doubt traps that can keep you from living out your true potential.
A number of things can cause low self-confidence and a lack of self-belief. We have seen that self-belief requires self-esteem and overcoming negative thinking. While these are internal factors, there are also external dynamics that can affect your self-belief in such an extent that will deeply affect your chances to live life big.
The space you live in can be a great source of support or suppression and your self-belief won’t take off if you are not aware of these factors and how they influence your life. Spend some time reflecting on your current life, ask yourself these questions and think about your answers.
When you don’t like yourself, you’ll evaluate yourself negatively in many things you do and very likely you’ll engage in a negative self-talk. This is why low self-esteem is one of the most important reasons of negative self-talk and why overcoming negative self-talk requires addressing self-esteem at first when you are trying to recover your self-belief.
“You’re only as good as your next thought of yourself” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
When you conquer negative self-talk, your self-esteem will improve and your self-belief gets a second chance. You’ll gain more self-confidence and you’ll feel more positive about your life in general.
The good news is that overcoming negative self-talk is possible and you can learn how to do it.
By now, we have seen that self-confidence is a pillar skill for a successful and meaningful life. We have seen a lot of tips and suggestions and thought-provoking insights. If self-confidence, boiled down, is “I can”, then believing in yourself is a basic prerequisite for a healthy self-confidence. This could be restated as: “Self-confidence is Believing I can”. This seems a sensible thought, but how to start believing in yourself?