Learning to be more confident can be challenging. Just follow these simple steps and things will be a little bit easier.
1. Make yourself happier at home. Talk with friends and do fun stuff for a while until you can’t keep that happiness bottled and need to let it out.
2. Start at school by making sure your head does not lower and your hair does not go in front of your face like a cover. Keep hair off your face, put that hood off your head, and wear bright cheery approachable colors like orange and green. Walk assertively.
3. Make eye contact. If you cannot do that, look at their shoulder or something near their eyes.
4. Don’t hide! It’ll make you seem like you don’t want to talk.
5. Smile or laugh at jokes, this makes you more noticeable. Tell some too.
6. Smile a lot. Its better when someone looks around and sees this bright happy person with a beautiful smile than just not noticing you in the background.
7. If you for sure know the answer to the question then raise your hand. If its wrong then just shrug it off (this also attracts some attention towards yourself without overdoing it).
8. Make sure you are talking with your friends because (maybe) that is where you feel most comfortable.
9. If you feel so shy that you can’t talk much to your friends then just add in a comment once in a while.
10. Don’t be phony. Keep the friends you have as your friends. You don’t want to push them away and then not be accepted by others.
11. Be who you are! Be yourself. Don’t be who you aren’t. Never pretend to be the person you want to be.
12. Act like you are always happy and comfortable. This will make you a people magnet, not in a horrifying way but people will definitely wanna get to know you and that includes your crush. Once you get used to it, the acting will stop and it will become natural.
13. Don’t be an air head but definitely take the time to feel good about yourself. Dude, who wouldn’t wanna talk to you when you feel like that?
14. Take risks! You only get one life! Work hard at your goals, laugh a lot, love everyone you can and trust yourself. Make a point to do something that you have wanted to do but also scares the heck out of you. It might be hard at first, but the more you do it, the more proud of your self you become. That’s how you become confident.
15. Don’t over think your moves. This is really hard for some, especially when you are meeting new people. Just go for it, don’t worry about what will go wrong.
