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important to you and that which you want to achieve in your life. To

build self confidence, you must set goals which you should achieve or
meet within certain periods of time. You should set those goals which

require working and straining to be achieved. Do not set goals which
are very simple. The goals should:-

• Exploit your potential strengths
• Minimize the weaknesses

• Help you realize all your opportunities

• Be able of controlling the threats which you face

Begin managing your mind: This includes thinking before you talk
or cat. It involves managing your emotions, opinions and views on

something. This will ensure that you relate with all people well

including the ones you differ with in various aspects.

Commit yourself to success: To achieve anything, you must be

committed. You should ensure that you dedicate your time, mind and
resources to build self confidence. As you commit yourself to success

you should aim at achieving balanced Self-Confidence self confidence
lies in the mind of low self-confidence and over-confidence. Both low

and over confidence are not good and you should avoid them. Low
self confidence will put in a state whereby you do not believe or trust

whatever you do.

Over confidence will put you in a state where by you over trust

whatever you do. Over confident people do not accept corrections or
the contributions by others. Self confidence gives you confidence in

whatever you and enables you accept reasonable criticism and
contributions by others. Over confident people do not asses the risks

and vacancies of success and failure because they believe they can

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