1. Set goals for yourself
It's not about the goals that your boss/company/relatives sets for you. In any area of ​​life, you should have your own goals that you will embody. Not necessarily global, but important and valuable to you at a particular moment. Having realized one, formulate a new goal. Raise your bar every time so that it takes effort to achieve it: develop skills, learn something new, change the usual behavior pattern, introduce good habits.

2. Act in the direction you want
Setting a goal is 50% success. But concrete actions are needed to realize our desires. Use the art of small steps in your confidence building work. Don’t rush into big, overwhelming tasks right away — break down the path to your goal into small steps and start with the simplest for you. After completing the first stage, praise yourself for what you have achieved and think about what needs to be done to move on to the next. And so, step by step, you will reach the top of your goal. Each such path traveled is a contribution to your confidence.

3. Recognize your accomplishments
Once upon a time, you had to make an effort to learn how to ride a bike, get an education, fill out your first resume, get a job, increase your income, improve relationships with colleagues. Even if today the accumulated experience and the results obtained seem completely insignificant, it is thanks to them that you have developed certain skills and achieved success. Tracking achievements helps you better understand your strengths and consolidate the positive experience gained, which is the foundation of self-confidence.

4. Create a supportive environment
We all need to know that there is a person who believes in us and will support us in difficult times. Your task is to communicate more with just such people. If there are toxic people in your environment who say that you can’t, you can’t cope, you won’t succeed, minimize, or better yet, completely eliminate communication with them.

5. Use your strengths
Build on your strengths in professional development. For this you need:
to study yourself and your features well;
objectively assess their capabilities;
be aware of what you can and cannot do, what is easy and what requires a lot of effort from you;
know what your qualities and in what situations are your advantage;
understand what specific actions will help develop your growth zones.
Having studied your features, bet on strengths, but do not forget to simultaneously develop the so-called cons. There are many approaches to identify your strengths: the DISC behavioral preference model, value motivator identification techniques, Adizes PAEI management styles, your own observations, feedback from colleagues, etc.

6. Find an activity for the soul
Self-realization of a person directly affects the growth of his self-confidence. Find an activity where you will fully realize your abilities and talents. Anything where you will enjoy the process and the result. That will allow you to immerse yourself in what really fascinates you.

7. Keep Learning
Today, the ability to learn quickly is a core competency of successful people, so make learning new things a habit. Expand and update your knowledge in a familiar area and apply what you have learned to life and work. Learning and applying new knowledge will not only make your worldview wider, and life filled with new experiences. Keep in mind that the completion of the next course is perceived by the brain as a new achievement, which in turn affects the growth of self-confidence.

8. Exercise and stay healthy
Choose the appropriate format and training regimen and regularly pay attention to your health. Firstly, adherence to the daily routine and schedule of physical activity is an achievement in itself, and we already know that this directly affects self-confidence. Secondly, a toned healthy body and a straight posture symbolize a self-confident person. Find something fun to do: cycling, swimming, playing sports, fitness, running, interval walking, dancing, tennis, horseback riding, whatever.

9. Compare yourself today to yourself yesterday.
Not with anyone else, but only with yourself!
We live in a material world, where material goods are considered to be the key signs of success. Don't fall into this trap. Growth in well-being does not always indicate a high level of self-confidence. Yes, life situations are different.
Self-confidence develops the ability to quickly recover from stressful situations. Therefore, pay more attention to what new knowledge and skills you have acquired, what new competencies you have developed, how much you have advanced in relationships with relatives or colleagues, changed your behavior, etc.

10. Love change
The VUCA period in which we are living is characterized by the incredible speed of change on a global scale. The only way to stay afloat in such an uncertain environment is to love change and develop your adaptability to rapidly changing conditions. Therefore, from time to time, change something in your life: new approaches, new impressions / sensations, new experiences.