33 Easy Ways to Boost Confidence Instantly
Building self confidence takes time and commitment. It requires working on your mindset consistently and taking action, even when you don’t feel brave enough.
But what happens on the days when you need an instant confidence boost?
What happens when you need to feel confident in a meeting at work or you want to feel confident showing up live on social media?
How do you feel confident at an interview? How do you feel confident on a date?
Sometimes you need to instantly build your confidence to help you with an unexpected situation or to simply improve self esteem when you’re feeling low.
We’ve all had mornings where we’ve woken up lacking confidence and feeling down about ourselves. It’s in those moments we can reach for these instant confidence boosters to improve our mood and rapidly increase self esteem.
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Here are 33 ways to instantly boost your confidence in the quickest way possible:
Spend 5 minutes repeating powerful affirmations for confidence
Stand in front of the mirror in a power pose
Sing along to your favourite song to put you in a good mood
Put on an outfit that makes you feel comfortable in your own skin
Practice box breathing to ground you and bring you back into your body
Write an empowerment list such as “15 times I felt proud of myself” or “20 Reasons I feel full of confidence in this moment”
Journal as your future self so you can embody that confident energy now
Roll your shoulders back, stand taller and smile
Do an EFT tapping script for increasing confidence (access 250+ EFT tapping videos inside Marie Houlden’s My Healing Membership)
Write a list of all the obstacles you’ve overcome in your life
Spend 10 minutes visualising yourself living your perfect day as your most confident self
Download The Confidence Kit for free and listen to the morning visualisation for confidence
Shake off any negative energy in your body by dancing around the room
Have a compliments folder on your phone full of lovely things that people have said about you
Rewrite any limiting beliefs you have and transform them into empowering ones
Choose an activity from my Mindset Work: How to Be Confident workbook
Look at yourself in the mirror and find 5 things you love about yourself
Celebrate a recent achievement to remind yourself how amazing you are
Wear a bold coloured lipstick
Listen to a meditation or hypnosis for more confidence
Hang out with a friend who’s full of confidence in themselves - it’ll rub off on you!
Push play on a confidence boosting podcast
Write a list of all the things you’ve achieved in your life
Go for a run or do a HIIT workout to flood your body with positive endorphins
Read a chapter of a personal development book
Create a playlist of empowering videos on TikTok and watch whenever you need to feel confident in yourself
Step away from social media for 24 hours to avoid comparing yourself to others
Spritz yourself with a perfume that reminds you of a time you felt most confident
Think of a person who has the confidence levels you desire and look at ways you can replicate the mannerisms they have
Change your environment to help shift your thoughts by going for a walk or taking yourself on a date
Attend an empowering dance class in person or online
Write a list of all the times you felt scared but you did the thing anyway and how confident you felt after you’d achieved it
Remind yourself that confidence comes from taking action so find your inner brave and do the thing you’re scared of now!
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