How to Believe in Yourself: Really Use Your Strengths

If you struggle to believe in yourself, take heart. While it may seem challenging to find your strengths, you can do this. Vision and courage can help.

“I am not a has-been. I am a will be.” – Lauren Bacall.

How to Believe in Yourself: Vision and Courage Are the Best Ways

It’s hard to believe in yourself when you’re feeling down. When life is a series of disappointments and outcomes don’t measure up, it’s tough to see beyond your current situation. Not only is it challenging to envision success in the future, but you might not even have the will to try.

Yet we are blessed with an indomitable spirit that will rise to the occasion if called upon. Of course, you can call it inner courage or fortitude, the hand of God, or the power of the human psyche. It all adds up to vision and courage.

Call on Your Strengths to Believe in Yourself

How do you start seeing what can be instead of fixating on what has been? It takes a self-belief to turn around perceived failures. However, self-belief may be hard when you’re down or suffering a loss.

Yes, it can seem impossible, but you have inner strength to draw on.

• Think about your successes. Then, acknowledge them. These don’t need to be monumental outcomes. Something relatively simple will do.
• For example, it’s a plus if you’re good at numbers.
• If you are a terrific organizer, this is another successful attribute.

More Tips to Believe in Yourself

It also pays to be grateful for what you have now. Gratitude brings you back to the present, helping you focus on the here and now.

Now, think of where you want to go from here. Think of the outcomes you’d consider successes.

• Identify ways to increase your knowledge or skill set.
• What activities could open up things to explore and create the potential to meet new people?
• Learn how to be fair to yourself.

Muse on these things for a while. As questions arise or you think of things you’d like to follow up on, jot them down. Use them as references as you dive in and seek answers.

Create Meaningful Goals

When you find a burning interest or desire in a specific area or just a general motivation to get out there and pursue different opportunities, follow up. Make good on the spark that’s been ignited. Create goals that you can work hard to achieve. There’s nothing like a desirable goal to keep you moving forward despite difficulties or roadblocks.

You are not a has-been. Instead, you are a will-be. You desire to believe in yourself and your goals. Remember these three things:

• Have the courage to do your best in everything you attempt.
• Always nurture your vision.
• Finally, enjoy the journey and make the most of today.