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What Helped Me Boost My Self Confidence

Have you ever had a lack of confidence in yourself? If so, you came to the right place.

Jos Robichaud

Jul 23, 2019

Have a Routine.

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Having a routine has personally helped me so much. Getting up for the day around the same time, heading to the gym, coming back to have breakfast and to get ready for the day has helped me get ready to take the day on. Taking the time to get ready is huge. Look good, feel good, right?

Exercise

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While many people HATE going to the gym, it does help A LOT. The first few times you may feel self-conscious since it's not a familiar environment, and the body builders can be a little intimidating, but you soon realize everyone started somewhere.

Sleep

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Getting enough sleep is SUPER important. If you're tired and cranky, you're not going to want to take the time for basic self-care. I know I'm bad for this, if I didn't sleep well or for more than 5 hours minimum, I won't take my morning shower, or I'll leave the house without eating breakfast. These are two important parts of my morning routine that I need to do in order to feel good during the day.

Get Organized

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Anyone is going to feel overly stressed and self-conscious when it comes to how messy your bedroom, living room or office is. If your room is a mess, your life will feel that way too. I tend to get more stressed out if my car, my desk or my bedroom are in a mess. It brings me down, it stresses me out, and I get angry because I can't find ANYTHING. Keeping clean and organized really does wonders. Also, cleaning can be fun and a great way to get rid of stress!

Think Positively

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Recognizing when you're being super negative and purposely replacing those with positive things. This is all about being self-aware and it can be hard to get into that habit, I've been trying for 10 years to get into that habit and I've finally almost mastered it. It's about realizing and acknowledging when you're having negative thoughts and trying to replace them with some more positive ones. For example: I tend to get angry at myself a lot, so when that happens, I try to think of why I should be proud of myself instead. Maybe I screwed up this one thing, but I did this other thing super well.

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This pose has been proven to help with self confidence! Try it out for yourself!

I hope these help you as much as they've helped me. And remember, you are powerful, brilliant, and brave!

5 Ways To Bring Positivity Into Your Life When All You Want To Do Is Drown In Self-Pity

It seems like life has been serving up more bad than good and in all honesty, the only thing you want to do is crawl under your covers and hide from the rest of the world.

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5 Ways To Bring Positivity Into Your Life When All You Want To Do Is Drown In Self-Pity

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The first two weeks of classes have come to an end and they have been anything BUT easy. It seems like life has been serving up more bad than good and in all honesty, the only thing you want to do is crawl under your covers and hide from the rest of the world.

Although this seems like the best solution, it is also the easy way out. Take it from the girl who took basically a whole week off from her life because she just could not handle everything that was being thrown at her. This caused her to feel extremely lonely and even more stressed out for being behind in classes that JUST began.

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11 Things We Learned From Brooke Davis

"What's more important? What we become or how we become it?"

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"She was fiercely independent, Brooke Davis. Brilliant, and beautiful, and brave. In two years she had grown more than anyone I had ever known. Brooke Davis is going to change the world someday, and I'm not sure she even knows it." - Lucas Scott, An Unkindness of Ravens

Brooke Davis of the hit show One Tree Hill was the it girl - she had it all, or so we thought. She started out as a stuck-up, shallow, spoiled, head cheerleader who didn't have her life together. She slept around a lot and loved to party - sounds like your typical high school teenager right? Wrong. B. Davis had so much more to offer. Caring, loyal, and outspoken, she has taught us some valuable lessons throughout the 9 seasons that OTH was on the air:

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11 Signs You Have An Honorary Roommate

Make yourself at home, why don't you?

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For some of us, coming to college was the first time we ever had to share a room. It was a big change, but a fun one. As you meet more and more people over the course of your college career, it seems to be a pattern that you will at some point have that one friend that doesn't live with you, but acts like they do. We call those people, "Honorary Roommates" and here are 11 signs you have one in your life.