Today we’re gonna discuss 3 improvements that could be made to influence your confidence for the better:
- Acclimating To Your Environment
- Preparing in Areas of Intelligence
- Expanding your team
Getting acclimated to Your Environment
Getting acclimated to your environment is a confidence hack that was introduced formally to me in college, but didn’t realize I was exposed to it since elementary school.
Let’s start off with what it means to be acclimated biology as a human. It makes understanding the concept much easier. All it is—adapting to your climate. So if it’s cold, your body has ways to heat up, and vice-versa. We as humans are gonna do whatever possible to feel comfortable at the place we’re tethered to. If that happens, we naturally become more confident.
Let’s take what we learned so far and apply it to another simplistically fun activity; sports. You ever heard of home team advantage? It’s a real thing that gets taken into account with a team’s performance. That’s the lesson I was eluding to earlier about when I was in school. I was a student-athlete most of my time, and even in reflecting on that it made more sense why my team’s coach would wanna have our team be some of the first athletes to get to a venue for a tournament. We’d be familiar with the location. We would know where things are at, and the logic behind that is we would perform better as a result.
Intelligence Preparation
Being prepared intellectually is another confidence improver. There’s nothing like having the feeling that you’re prepared for a situation that calls for having a certain amount of knowledge. Think of the last time that you had to take a test in school. You actually studied for it! Pretty good feeling to have right?
What can you do to have confidence?
- taking consistent positive actions
- challenging negative self-beliefs
- practicing self-compassion
Those are what I would call popular methods. They’re all great suggestions.
Let’s break each one down a little bit though: positive actions are important, they’re more morale boosters if you ask me. They’re what we’re taught we should do and in most cases get rewarded positively.
Challenging negative self-beliefs— it can be one of the more difficult things to try and achieve because most of the times we don’t believe that we’re gonna be able to correct flaws we see in ourself.
Practicing self-compassion: it goes hand-in-hand with challenging negative self-beliefs. If anything doing this more early on will make it less likely that you’re gonna be dealing with these limiting beliefs.
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