This section of my project is turning out to be harder than I thought. Maybe it's stress from work and school. Maybe it's the fact that I haven't been eating well over the past week or two. Maybe it's the fact that my current ensemble is an over-sized Miller High Life t-shirt and my ex-roommate's break-away sweat pants.
There are certain things that will help your self-confidence, and things that will hurt it.
Things that boost yourself confidence
1. Working out. Just don't look at your reflection in the store windows as you run past.
2. Teaching. Find someone who wants to learn to do what you do, and then teach them what you know.
3. Fixing yourself up. Personal mantra? Try to always look the way you'd want to if you ran into your worst enemy or Ryan Gosling.
4. Act the way you wish you felt. It's that whole "smiling well actually make you feel happier" thing. Acting confident makes you feel confident. Try entering a room like everyone in it has been eagerly awaiting your arrival. But don't open the door like Kramer or anything. Keep cool.
5. Dance to club music while you're alone in the house. Think body rolls, hair flips, the whole rigmarole. Again, don't catch yourself in the mirror. You don't wanna know how ridiculous you look.
Things that crumple your confidence like a failed spelling quiz that you don't wanna show your parents and so you throw it in the girl's room trash bin.
1. Hanging out with dancers. Or standing next to them for that matter. Enough said.
2. Getting in over your head. Being handed an assignment beyond your skills. Singing a song that's out of your range. Trying to decipher the tech manual for a new mail machine.
3. Eating tortilla chips for dinner. Nothing makes you feel more poor or less healthy.This should really only be done when having Margaritas with friends and the restaurant has free chip and salsa refills.
4. Shopping for a bathing suit. Again, enough said.
5. Attempting to save up to something, only to realize that this means that you not only can't afford a cab, you can't afford public transit. I can't keep track of those little SEPTA coins anyway. I usually end up using them to try to buy dinner trail mix from the community college vending machines.
Re-read that last sentence and tell me why the light's come on on my self-esteem tank.
Thankfuls
26. Lazy sundays
27. Christmas parties
28. Trashy reality TV
29. Long drives
30. Coffee
Simplicity :/
Energy :(
Mindfulness :(
Passion :)
Healthy :/
Big Picture :(
Affirmations :(
"Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself"~Anthony Trollope
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