Craft and Confidence

How To Build Confidence in 1 Easy Step?

You’re here because you are looking for ways to build confidence and I have one way for you to do it. I don’t have a list of 8 things you can do right now to feel more confident immediately. I have one way.

Ok, Fine, But What Should You Do?

You can do almost anything that is a little bit more difficult than what you usually do and that will make you step just a hair outside your comfort zone. You could take a class. Or join the gym. Take up bowling. For me, I do crafts. There’s something about making things, even simple things like crafts that fills that space in me that wants to be creative.

So What Is Confidence, Then?

What I’m telling you is that confidence is just allowing yourself to learn that you can.

But What About When I Try and Fail?

Trying something new seems contradictory to being confident because I think most people think that trying something and failing is bad for your confidence. You hear all the time: He lost. It broke his confidence. I don’t buy that. A loss, a failure, is a set back, of course. And it should hurt. But it shouldn’t break your confidence.

Confidence: You Know It When you See It?

You’ve heard the confidence quotes about how confidence is sexy or that you can see how confident a person is by the way they walk into a room. That’s not confidence to me. Quiet people with their heads down can be confident. And I’ve never understood the correlation between sexy and confident.