A practical guide to believe in yourself

This year I learnt to believe in myself, its not something that we actually are taught to do. Its something i discovered while wanting change.

There are a couple of habits i developed to believe in myself, and i want to share them so other people can apply this to the daily life.

1) Change your inner voice to encourage you

Our inner voice is super good on identifying possible things that can go wrong, it can find all the scenarios where things are not what we expect, it can create new ways in downgrading our self esteem.

That is why the practice lays on constantly telling yourself that you are the baddest motherfucker on earth. At first seems awkward, because we are taught that is a selfish thing to consider ourselves great and showing to the world (also there are people that use this power to shame others). The words you use doesn’t matter to speak to yourself. In conversations with your family or friends, start to create a habit of telling how good you are, something like a joke, it doesn’t need to have a backup. After a couple months, the joke transforms into a thought, then a core belief. You have to train your mind to think in a different way by repeating a habit.

2) Remind yourself you could do anything

I don’t want to sound cliché here. But i think that is a fundamental truth about human nature. Whatever the mind projects, it has the power to accomplish. The problem lies on what things you truly want to accomplish in this life.

I have a power that whenever i write a goal on a piece of paper, it becomes reality. Maybe not in the time i set it to be, but I subconsciously find a way to make it happen.

Ive seen people that set 20 goals on a notebook and expect to achieve 10 , that is bullshit, i maybe think 6 months what goal should attain before i write it down, whenever I do, I know is a core goal I truly want to do, not something other people make me believe is a must.

So keep in mind that if something is worth doing, you have an enormous power to make it into a reality, the only thing you have to do is find what you want(which is extremely difficult).

3)Involve in activities that creates energy

An effective strategy for boost your self esteem is involving on activities to support your progress. You can´t magically start believing in yourself if you spent your time doing unproductive things. The best way to start doing the things you want is by creating healthy habits. You must set a list of things your day must achieve so you could feel that you didn’t wasted it. I set myself that i have to do at least 3 hours of active studying (4 is the recommended), running 4 times weekly, where each session last 25 minutes. Meditate 2 times a day and waking before 10AM.

That are non-negotiable claims i collected on this year. Those habits, if i perform well, are the sustain of my life. So whenever i have a day that i accomplish those, i feel very good. Also, doing sports is something where you collect good energy because you encourage you to go harder, so you also maintain habits of believing, something that in physical activities is super common to receive encouragement of your peers and teachers, whereas on mental activities we are accustomed to feel we aren’t good enough.