Confidence is at the top of the list of things that make people charming. Confident people have mastered making people bend to their will without coercion. It is almost godly how confident people get things done. Their confidence oozes from their smile, face, hands, and body movements.
It’s impossible to resist their charm. Interestingly, any willing heart can learn this divine personality. I’ve studied, observed, and practiced 7 skills mastered by confident people and their impact is almost instant. Desiring confidence or gathering more knowledge about confidence has led you here. I suggest we walk together into this confidence-building article.
They Dress with Intention
Confident people understand that dressing is a powerful communication tool. It talks about them before they say or do anything. Their style of dressing is modest and event-determined. They choose modesty to communicate their desire to speak to anyone and to show respect to those interacting with them. Modesty is also their way of communicating the type of people to approach them and value for high-quality people and things.
Confident people express their personalities by wearing clothes that make them look sharp, whether at casual or professional events.
They also add to their dressing polished nails, well-kept hair, matching shoes, accessories, and a smooth perfume (optional). They are careful not to show their skin or physique.
They Know what they want
A confident man is mindful of the things happening in his life. He lives with ambition and purpose. He makes deliberate decisions to invest in a career, friendship, activity, relationship, and community work.
The confident man is clear about what he wants out of life. He has divided his purpose into short-term and long-term goals. If he has a family or people working below him, he communicates his vision and involves them in the pursuit of the vision.
He observes Abraham Maslow’s motivation theory. His satisfaction is found in pursuing his purpose.
The confident man’s desire to live with intention helps him to overcome stress and anxiety because he knows and prepares to fight the challenges he is certain to fight and ignore fights that can only waste his time and energy.
He is Consistent
Confident men have mastered practicing what they preach and following their plans. They value following through a process rather than figuring out shortcuts to success. They will show up for work, their families, and their friends regardless of their feelings or financial situation.
Confident people value consistent availability over talent. They are also accountable for giving feedback to their bosses, friends, and family. When a mistake happens, they acknowledge it and learn from it. Confident people know their potential. They are careful not to offend others by over or under-promising.
Their ability to follow through their follows has earned them progress and success. They are never at the same level year in year out. Within 5 years, there’s evidence of promotion in their job, growth in their personal lives, and consistent advancement in their career.
Confident people have also formed powerful habits like self-control and discipline. They also get the respect of other people because they are reliable and trustworthy.
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They are self-aware and practice self-inspection
Men who are confident view self-awareness and mindfulness as basic needs. They regularly engage in a self-inspection journey of their thoughts, emotions, values, and strengths and weaknesses. People who display confidence are open to personal and professional growth. They express their desire for growth by visiting a therapist for mental and emotional checkups.
Some spent time in prayer to strengthen their spiritual side and others read personal development books to stay motivated in their growth journey. They make tremendous leaps in business and personal growth because their decisions are void of biases and emotional interferences. Strong relationships in their lives are an outcome of their ability to engage in mindfulness and sobriety when dealing with people.
Regularly inspecting their mental space helps them to rise above mental issues like stress, anxiety, and worries, identify what triggers these issues, and develop a strategy to deal with these issues.
They Practice Gratefulness
Gratefulness is the art of having a positive attitude towards life and appreciating everything whether big or small. Confident people always keep their heads up when their feet are on fire. They never display weakness in public even when their emotions are all over. They verbally express their gratitude by recognizing value, in people or things, and appreciate it.
Confident people intentionally practice kindness by genuinely doing nice to other people. Their ability to remain grateful despite life circumstances makes them resilient when troubles come their way.
They will always see an opportunity to bounce back regardless of the times they fall. His positive outlook towards life attracts to him other positive-minded people. Together, they have solid-bonded relationships.
They practice honesty
Confident people have an unwavering loyalty to honesty with themselves and others. Everything they do is tied to sincerity and truthfulness. They would rather lose everything than lose their loyalty to honesty. People like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther Jr. Socrates, and Jesus Christ were killed for standing firm on what they believed in despite pressure to compromise.
Honesty is the handwriting of their life. By practicing honesty, confident people have attracted authentic relationships built of genuine concern for one another.
Foes, secretly admire confident people’s loyalty to honesty because they know that honesty is an attribute found in few people. Finally, honesty gives confident people liberty and freedom because their secrets and lies do not haunt them.
Confident people are patient
Confident people have an inbuilt faith, stronger than life disappointments. They have mastered the art of being calm and grateful amid delays and challenges. People with confidence are reactive to circumstance or defensive in conversations.
The art of restraint is at their fingertip. When challenges come, they quickly accept and acknowledge the situation as is. Second, they analyze their way out. Finally, they come out of it. They can choose to tolerate a stressful situation until it is done. Patience has given them thick skin.
Instead of a situation defeating them, confident people become more mature mentally and emotionally after learning from their mistakes. They also grow in their professional skills because of their patience they sharpen their career skills. Patience also allows them to be vulnerable and check into their weakness.
I can confidently say that no one has fully mastered the 7 skills described in this article. Mastering them is a journey of constant practice. The confident people we admire are just a distance away. You might never become exactly like the people you admire but if you constantly practice these 7 skills, it is a guarantee that you will see progress in your life and inspire others to follow you in this divine journey.
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