Beeing Bee

This article may turn into a multi-part series. Confidence is found in various areas of our lives. Educational/ intellectual confidence, physical confidence, social confidence and professional confidence. I’d even add relationship confidence. I’ll give you a brief overview of how to begin to develop your confidence in each of these areas.  

Important Steps for Each Area:

1. Do some thinking and decide where your current level of confidence resides. 
2. Reflect on those you spend time around, do they make you feel confident, empowered, or a bit uncomfortable and potentially envious? 
3. Use these intrinsic skills to determine where and how you should improve. 

Educational and Intellectual Confidence: 

1. Your Intellectual Confidence may stem from your current level of education. 
2. What is the topic of conversation you and your peers tend to have?
3. If the conversations or environment make you feel uncomfortable or envious then you know exactly where you need to improve. 
4. Example: Going back to school for any topic of your choice will improve your intellectual confidence. Additionally, watching educational videos, TEDTalks, Motivational speakers and reading literature will as well. 

Physical Confidence: 

1. Your physical confidence will stem from how well you take care of yourself.
2. Dental and Body Hygiene, Laundered Clothing, Healthy Diet, Physical Activity, Exercise, Additional Beauty Routines (per interest). 
3. How often do you spend time around those who are physically confident?
4. Spending time with those who are confident will awaken a piece of you. This is an invitation to better yourself. Someone else’s confidence should not make you feel insecure.
5. Example:  Engaging in each of these essential self-care activities will improve your physical confidence. Spending time around confident people can offer you insight on how you can improve your life.  This does not mean compare yourself to them. You don’t need to strive to be like someone else or look like someone else. If  you don’t achieve that goal it will have a harsh impact on your confidence level. Instead, use one to three things you like from their lifestyle routine, don’t try to copy their entire lifestyle regime. Only compare your current self with your past self. You’ll begin to see how far you’ve come and can celebrate these wins. 

Social Confidence: 

1. Social confidence is a combination between physical confidence and intellectual confidence.
2. If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you do good. If you do good, you are good. When we prepare ourselves, we are more likely to feel like we belong. 
3. The more we feel we belong, the more willing we are to attend social events and thrive at them.
4. Social confidence can be impacted by anxiety, which will be further discussed in “how to soothe your anxiety”. 

Example: Take care of your physical hygiene and have a comfortable relationship with your intellectual confidence and you will thrive. 

Professional Confidence: 

1. Professional Confidence is a combination of all of the confidences we discussed so far. Additionally you must be knowledgeable in the field you are working in.
2. If you read the job description and you have those experiences, then you are knowledgeable in that field. When you get hired, always remember that you are knowledgeable in that field. Do not allow Imposter Syndrome to disrupt your confidence. 
3. Example: Spending time around people in your profession that uplift you and make you feel valued is essential. Take note of all the incredible things you are doing at your job, update your resume. Remind yourself how incredible you are, remind yourself that you are profitable. 

Relationship Confidence: 

1. Relationship confidence is a combination of all of the confidences above. Lack in any of these areas can negatively impact your relationships. We have to be whole individuals and believe in ourselves to see why  others would love us. 
2. We all have so many incredible things to offer the world. 
3. Example: Take care of your physical hygiene, increase your intellectual confidence. Attend social events, check-out How to engage in wonderful solo dates. Elevate your professional confidence. Once you feel uplifted in these areas, common issues that can occur in relationships will be easier to deal with. 

As you see there are multiple areas for us to be confident. You ARE confident in at least one of these areas. You ARE able to be confident in ALL of these areas.

Thanks for reading a piece by me, 

Beeing Bee