Either you succeed or learn, there are no real failures in life. Being humble and having low self-esteem are two very different things. Do you feel like you are not confident? Feel like you are always falling short at something? Don't worry, no one in the world knows everything and can be good at everything!

After you have identified your strengths and weaknesses, trust your capabilities to learn. Use the opportunities of shortcomings and learn. One trap that many fall into is that they have the tendency to compete with others and evaluate themselves based on others' successes and performance. If you see yourself doing this, you will never be able to build confidence.

Compete with yourself not others. Define your strengths and weaknesses, then trust you capabilities to refine those attributes and become better selves. Your goal should be to become the best person, the best teacher or the best salesperson that you can ever be, not better than him or her.

3. Practice Confidence

Just like anything else in life, confidence can be practiced. Most of your confidence is felt by others by sensory and visual ques. The vocal tonality in a conversation, your posture during that important meeting, the scent of your perfume that shows that you care, and your firm grip when you shake your business partner's hand for the first time.



Above all, remember that you are fully capable. Let them know that you are a successful person and ooze all the confidence you have onto them. If you see yourself not doing the above things, practice. Practice until representing yourself with confidence becomes a habit. They are the little things that go a long way.

4. Take Risks

Anyone who is rich have lost money at some point in their life. But many people who are poor have never lost a single dime. They don't take risks. When you first learn to ride a bicycle, you fall down, over and over. Your confidence may be crushed on your first few attempts, but as you continue to take risks with that next pedal, you realise that you can ride. Soon, you are riding your bicycle without any falls, feeling that breeze against your face. You feel good and you become confident.