6 Daily Tasks That Will Boost Your Confidence

Confidence is important. In fact it’s crucial socially and economically.

In many ways our level of self-confidence dictates our success in life.

Someone who is confident is more likely to ask for a raise, make the sale, or ask for a date with that intimidatingly attractive person.

Plus, we tend to feel the happiest when we are feeling the most confident.

In fact, happiness and confidence go hand in hand. Increase one and you usually automatically increase the other.

But what if confidence does not come easily to you? What if you are racked with self-doubt? What can you do to feel more confident and happy on a consistent basis? The answer is to blend small tasks into your daily life and build up your natural confidence, little-by-little.

Here are 6 daily tasks that will help boost your confidence.

Make a Gratitude List

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This is a great practice to do right after you wake up in the morning and right before bed. And it’s simple.

Simply writing out a list of 5-10 things you are grateful for will shift your focus away from the things that aren’t going so well in your life to all the things that are.

This process is a natural corrective to the human instinct to focus on threat and fear.

Where can you start? Well, you woke up today right? Some people didn’t. Your body works. You have food. A roof over your head. Chances are somebody cares about you. Maybe even two somebodies.

Simply recognizing and acknowledging the things for which you are grateful in your life on a regular basis will make you feel happier. And when you feel happier you inevitably feel more confident.

Exercise in the Morning

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Physical exercise in the morning, whether its going for a jog, hitting the weights, swimming, dancing, or playing pickup basketball, is an excellent way to wake up your body.

When you exercise in the morning, you’ll start your day feeling accomplished and energized. This will wake up your recently sleeping muscles, get your blood circulating, give you a boost of energy and ambition, and start a momentum of productivity that will continue throughout your day.

But there are also psychological benefits to morning exercise. Exercising in the mornings on a consistent basis will lead to more sustained energy and an overall feeling of wellness. Your body will vibrate with life for hours into the day.

And when you feel great about your body, you naturally feel more competent, more alive – and more confident.

Even if you’re not currently at your ideal weight or muscle mass, the fact that you’re taking action on it every day, working towards a fitness goal, will leave you feeling that you are in motion toward your goals. And that you are taking action on your own behalf.

It’s a self-perpetuating positivity cycle.

Speak Positive Affirmations Aloud

You might think that talking to yourself is a bit weird, but the truth is, everyone does it.

People talk to themselves in their heads all day long. Researchers estimate that the average person has 50,000 – 70,000 thoughts per day.

That’s 50,000 – 70,000 fragments of conversations you’re having with yourself in your head every day, and most of them are unconscious. Which can be more damaging than you might think.

Why? Because when we repeat a thought over and over again, we soon accept it as truth and internalize it as part of our belief system. We quietly lay neural pathways that reinforce our thoughts, no matter how negative or self-wounding.

Knowing this, you can consciously create the neural pathways that serve you best.

For example, you can choose the belief that “I grow more and more confident every day.”

Starting with reinforcing your confidence, make a list of positive affirmations that you want to cultivate as beliefs, and repeat them out loud for 3-5 minutes every day at least once.

It helps to do it at the same time everyday, for example right after you get out of the shower in the morning. Although it may seem strange at first, speaking your affirmations aloud in front of the mirror while looking into your own eyes will amplify the effect.

For faster results, say them as often as possible, loop them in your head while driving to work or waiting in the checkout line.

When you feed your brain with confident thoughts and positive affirmations on a daily basis, your brain will increasingly “believe” those messages.

And as a result, your confidence will slowly, steadily increase.

Choose Healthy Foods

We all know it’s important to eat healthy – and yet over 50 percent of the American population consumes processed, sugar-infused foods daily.

Which leads to a whopping 32 percent obesity rate (compare 3 percent for Japan)

High quality, nutrient-rich foods will nourish your body and give it the ingredients it needs to keep you healthy and energized. Not only that, when you treat your body with love and respect, your self-love and your confidence that you “have got your life handled” will naturally increase.

When you eat processed food and drink sugary drinks, you are starving your body of the nutrients it needs to give you energy throughout the day.

Coffee and energy drinks may feel like a short-term fix but over time consuming too much of these stimulants can lead to harmful, long-term effects. Your skin will grow sallow. Your renal system will get stressed and stress your body.

Fuel your body with healthy food choices and your body will reward you with more energy and vibrant looking skin and hair, which – by the way – will also feed your self confidence and help you feel great about yourself.

Feed Your Brain With Inspiring People

Whether it's Tony Robbins, Napolean Hill, Richard Branson, Martin Luther King or Oprah Winfrey, if you create a daily practice of reading or listening to great thinkers and leaders, you will naturally absorb their inspiration.

Choose to allot at least 20 minutes for a daily dose of positive learning.

You can listen to an audiobook or read (remember that old-fashioned custom?) or simply go to Youtube, where is a wealth of audio books and speeches from great thought leaders.

These tools can help you stay focused on your highest goals in life, and keep you motivated to actually take action and move forward on them.

All these things will boost your confidence and reinvigorate your efforts.

Listening to positive and inspirational teachers will keep you feeling motivated, optimistic, and happy; all emotions that generate self-confidence.

Do One Small Thing Outside Your Comfort Zone

We all have our own personal “comfort zone”, that walled-in place where we think our ego keeps us safe from the “dangers” of the world.

However, for most people, this “comfort zone” is actually not very comfortable at all. It’s more of a “familiar zone” where we tend to let our fears stop us from living our life to the fullest.

But did you know that taking small actions to expand your comfort zone everyday can lead to huge results over time?

That’s why it’s imperative – if you want to up-level your confidence and effectiveness in the world to take one small action every day that is just outside of your current comfort zone.

Lean into your edges...

Strike up a conversation with that person you’ve had a crush on for a while but were too scared to ask them out.

Ask for a raise at work.

Take a salsa lesson. Or an improve class. Or learn how to give an effective massage.

Whatever it is for you, do one thing every day that makes you feel a little bit uncomfortable.

Facing small fears on a daily basis will create inside of you a feeling of being unstoppable!