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Motivation Tips

6 Confidence Building Exercises
By:Kelvin Kuang

Confidence building exercises are not only helps in academics and jobs but also in strengthening human bonds, relationships and to live a good and healthy social life. We know that confidence is a very vital element in a person's personality. It is important that one has instilled confidence in themselves from a very young age.

Nowadays there are various classes and discourses which are held for this purpose. Moreover one can even resort to books, videos and even the Internet to gain knowledge on confidence building exercises. Now, let discuss some of the popular confidence building tips:

1. Positive thinking
It is important to be extremely positive minded and remove all the negativity in one's mind. Love your self and be proud of your achievements. If one is feeling down and is unable to achieve something, make a list of the good and commendable tasks which you have done and go through them everyday. This will help you realize your own importance and value. One can read up on motivation as well. It is very important to be positive and take things in your stride.

2. Setting Goals
This is an important confidence building exercises to increase confidence levels. One should make a list of goals on one hand and on the other the strengths and weaknesses which you might have. Along with that make a note of the skills which you possess to achieve the goals. The skills which you do not have need to be worked upon first and then the start off accomplishing each goal. With surpassing each goal, you will gain confidence in yourself. It is important to have a vision clear in your head and failing in any task is meant to be taken as a stepping stone and learning rather than go in the dumps for failure.

3. Self Hypnosis
This technique can prove to be very productive if followed very sincerely. People have felt very calm and productive while indulging in self hypnosis and completing the task with increased confidence.

4. Breathing techniques
When you feel nervous, you just need to take a deep breath to create calmness. This is one of confidence building exercises which help in one getting a control on their fear of if they are very nervous before performance of a task.

5. Body language
You need to have a positive and straight physical appearance. This leads to reflection of an individual's confidence. For instance if you walk and talk straight, with head held high, positive signals would be sent on confidence level such as hunched back or a weak handshake etc. One should also be particular about their overall appearance, like clothes, hair and other things.

6. Mind management
It is very important because talk to their own selves and undertakes conditioning of the mind to be positive and look at the future with assurance and hope. Thinking negative would not help anyways!

These are some of the confidence building exercises which are very effective if followed sincerely. It is important to be positive and thus take these exercises in your stride and remove all negativity away!

Next, get this free book which will reveal more tips of confidence building exercises or go to http://www.selfesteemworkbook.com to find out more.






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