How to be confident

Everyone is always looking for ways to be more confident. I had an improv teacher tell me that sometimes you just got to walk with your dick out. Solid advice. Especially coming from a professional woman improviser and actor. The following tips are from addicted2success.com. The commentary is by yours truly.  

1.    Stop comparing yourself to others

Yeah yeah we all compare ourselves to a slice of what we think someone else’s life is. Just yesterday I was at Chipotle with the girls from work and there was this really really gorgeous girl who could not have been more than 18. She was tan, dark brown hair and bright blue eyes. I immediately felt inferior and thought how can I compete with that? Then I realized, why do we have to compete? Why can’t we both just be awesome and pretty in our own way? The feeling didn’t last too long anyway because I was stuffing my face with a chicken burrito bowl.

2.    Always make eye contact

Hard habit that I am trying to master. I just get so self-conscious that people can read my mind and pick at my insecurities. Eye contact means you believe in yourself. So start staring!

3.    Exercise and eat healthy

No shit.

4.    Dress sharp

This seems dangerous but it gives me an excuse to wear my scissor shirt.

5.    Compliment others often

What you put out will come back to you. Complimenting people also puts people at ease. As they say kill them with kindness. If that doesn’t work, try your bare hands.

6.    Help those less fortunate

This doesn’t mean sleeping with someone you think is a 3. Chances are, if you are even rating people only on looks you can’t be more than a 5. On a good day.

7.    Face your fears and don’t fear failure

Go up to your fear and say SUCK IT. Then defeat it and bask in how awesome you are. Once you start confronting your fears, they don’t seem so debilitating. It’s like standing up to a bully.

8.    Carry confidence with you

Clearly confidence is really lazy. That’s why you have to carry it around like it’s a fat pig or sleeping baby. Or dead baby. So many jokes I will not make.

9.    Fake it until you make it
     It’s like the girls’ credo in bed. Joking. I guess this is why girls wear fake eyelashes and get fake tans; so one day they can be pretty oranges and actually contribute more than self-esteem issues to the general population.

Confidence? Is that you?