Bolster Your Self-Confidence with Self-Assessment

To bolster your confidence at this moment, do some honest self-attitude assessment of where you are now. In other words, appreciate your current status. Think about what you’re especially good at now and what you have going on for yourself. Everybody has a lot more than they think about on a regular basis. What’s painfully obvious to you is a blazing revelation to someone else. Write every ability that you’re proud of about yourself: car mechanics, computer games, writing reports, public speaking, teaching, following advice, getting respect from your peers, saving money, drawing, clipping coupons, cooking, children rearing, dog training, singing, cleaning up messes, identifying bird species, gardening, telling a story to illustrate a point, constructing an e-mail, debating a position, keeping your word, telling the truth, good posture, able to multitask successfully, good grammar, good taste, hard worker, and dependable. Seriously, jot down your list right now. Keep adding to it as more thoughts come to mind.

Review your life. Bring to mind past positive feedback, compliments, and anything else you take pride in. Add other things about you, such as good parents/family/friends around you, being in relatively good physical shape and good health, and being lucky enough to have been born in a free country - or immigrated to a free country.

Just thinking about what you have, where you’ve been, and what you’ve accomplished has to add to your self-esteem a little at least. Don’t take those things for granted.