How to Break Free from Self-Doubt and Embrace Confidence

Lorna Harvey
4 min readAug 27, 2024

Every day, boost your self-confidence with some worthwhile strategies and grow as a person.

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Today, someone posted a group picture of my classmates from when we were fourteen or fifteen. Looking at the picture of myself, I marveled at how far I’d come. If I could talk to that younger me, I would have tried to boost her confidence.

Like most teenagers, I had a lot of self-doubt. I didn’t trust myself or my abilities. Today, I know who I am, who I am not, and who I will never be. For me, that is freedom from self-doubt.

Confidence indeed helps everything go more smoothly. When self-doubt enters our heads, our ability to act is jeopardized. Self-confidence may appear to fluctuate randomly, but there are activities you can take to boost your confidence regularly.

Improve Your Self-Confidence And Achieve More:

1. Achieve Your Goals. Begin small. One of your goals could be to be at work on time this week or eat a piece of fruit daily. Manageable goals are easy to achieve. When you do something consistently, you get confidence. Choose simple goals that make a difference and see how they can boost your confidence.

2. Create a List of Your Successes. Oddly, our failures are simple to list, whereas our triumphs require a little more thought. Or we feel embarrassed to acknowledge them. Create a list…

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Lorna Harvey

I’m a blogger, writer, and interested in helping people find answers for living their best life. I also write on https://www.createthebestlife.com/.