Why self-confidence is important

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend!! I kind of wish is was one more day longer. The weather was beautiful so I was basically outdoors all weekend...I got a bit of a burn but oh well I'm not complaining! Any who enough about this weekend and on to today's post...

SELF-CONFIDENCE!! What does it mean to be self-confident? and why is it important?

  "To be self-confident is to have confidence in yourself. Self-confident people don't doubt themselves. This is usually a positive word: you can be self-confident without being cocky, arrogant, or overconfident. If you know what you’re doing, you have every reason to be self-confident."

I think a lot of us understand what self-confidence is but I don't think many of us understand why it is important! I feel it take a conscious effort to become self-confident, I say this because for me it took a conscious effort to build my self-confidence. Being someone who has suffered from multiple eating disorders its easy to see that at one point in time I had very low self-confidence so I have had to work on it. It's taken me quite some time but I have finally reached a point in my life where I do have a higher self confidence and i value myself more than I ever have.

Here are some reasons why Self-Confidence is important:

1.  Greater self worth: I feel like the more self confidence you have, the more you value yourself and the more you value what you are capable of, then the more valuable you feel; this is what creates the effect of naturally holding your head up high, since you have higher self esteem and are proud of who you are.
2. More happiness and enjoyment: the more self confident you are, the happier you are with yourself and as a result, the more you enjoy life.
3. Less self doubt: the more self confident you become, the more free you become of the mental torture of doubting yourself, and questioning whether you're 'really' valuable, or capable of achieving things you want to achieve.
4. Greater strength and capabilities: the more self confident you are, the stronger and more powerful you feel; you also naturally grow stronger and more confident when encountering challenges, rather than feeling defeated by them.
5. Freedom from social anxiety: the more secure you feel in your self worth, regardless of how others see you, the less concerned you are with what others might or might not think of you in social situations.
6. More energy and motivation to act: the more confident you are that you can achieve things you want to achieve (like personal goals or dreams), the more motivated and energized you are to take action to achieve them.
7. Giving off good vibes to others: the happier and more confident you are, the more relaxed, comfortable, and at ease you are, and this puts others at ease more around you. Also with these qualities others tend to trust, respect, value, welcome, and cooperate with you more.
8. Success: in case it's ever been a mystery to you why self confident people are naturally more successful, now you can clearly understand why there is such a high correlation between self confidence and success; each of the above benefits helps you achieve things you want to achieve faster and easier, which means you enjoy more success in life.

I am not saying that everyone is 100% confident everyone has there things including myself! I do feel however it is important to understand how being more self confident can have a huge positive impact on your over all life!

Stephanie xo