A healthy, high self-esteem will allow you to achieve more and take risks more freely, building up a better approach to life. Here is how you can boost your self-confidence and increase your risk-taking.
Keep your promises to yourself
- If you constantly let another person down and failed to fulfil your promises, they would probably take a more negative view of who you are
- The same is true in your relationship with yourself. Keep the promises you make to yourself very important
Set clear boundaries
- Assert yourself and ask others to treat you with respect
- Nobody should trample on these boundaries without comment or reaction
- For example, whether you choose to drink, say no, or take time off are all boundaries that matter to you and that you have the right to set
Don’t Seek Approval
- Allow yourself to be the ultimate judge of your own choices and abilities
- Don’t give other people so much power over yourself, you should be the one to make your own decisions
- If others disapprove, but you are confident, you can go ahead and make the decision
Know your worth
- Write down a list of accomplishments
- Come back to the list whenever you feel you need a pick-me-up
- Continue to add to it as you achieve things
- Journal about whatever makes you feel especially proud, happy, thankful, etc
Notice the positives
- Take stock of the good and positives aspects of yourself, your choices, and your situation
- Recognize what you did right and now just what you did wrong
- Practice gratitude by seeking out things you feel grateful for
- Practice self-compassion by trying to recognize everything you are doing right
- When you boost your self-esteem, it’s likely to improve many aspects of your life
Don’t Expect Perfection
- Perfection is a myth
- There is always a way to improve or to be better
- Don’t allow the idea of perfection to cloud your judgment of who you are and what you do
- Accept that you are perfect as you are
- Not even the media stars have the perfect life
