Confidence is about both how you feel and how you look. However, even when you are not feeling it remember you can still demonstrate confidence on the outside. Communicate it.
It is important to start with self-confidence. If you are not confident about who you are, you can’t expect others to have full confidence in you. So make an effort to communicate self-confidence. Remember your confidence will change, your level of confidence and your recipe for confidence will change throughout your life and reflect the different stages in your life.
What are the ingredients for confidence?
Think about what you actually have when you are confident. Think about what you have or feel when you are unconfident. Compare the two situations. This can help you work out the ingredients of your own recipe for confidence. The important thing to remember is that you have this recipe or formula with you at all times. You just need to know what it is and how to tap into it and use it to your advantage.
What stops you from feeling confident? This might be things like self-doubt, worrying about what people are thinking, intimidation or stress about others, comparing yourself to others, or event remembering all the times you have failed in detail.
What can help you feel more confidence? This might be things like practising, getting support from peers (or feeling that you are support), by being confident in your skills, by being enthusiastic, by being in control or setting out what you can control or putting on an outfit that makes you feel confidence.
Pay attention to what makes you feel confident and what makes you feel unconfident to be able to build your own formula for success.