How to Get Your Confidence Back After Losing It Completely

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Our levels of confidence can often fluctuate — Just like our varying moods on a daily basis, our confidence can also vary day to day. We’re at our most confident when we’re doing something that we know we’re particularly good at; something that we’re familiar with and have done dozens of times. That makes perfect sense though, of course. If it’s something that we’ve done before, then it’s less intimidating, less scary.

But, when it comes to something that we’ve never done before or if it’s something that we’re not so good at (maybe even something we consider ourselves to be particularly bad at), then surely our level of confidence won’t be very high. We’ll likely be a little more self-conscious, a little more nervous, and a little more self-aware. And all of these feelings will ultimately lead us to perform at a subpar standard.

Losing our sense of confidence can and likely will occur often throughout our lives, especially when it comes to big failures in important areas such as our career or relationships. And these failures can have a huge and sometimes lasting impact on our overall self-esteem.

Feeling like you are inadequate, inept, or inferior are all normal feelings that we all face— They’re human feelings. And though we may feel this way from time to time, it isn’t something that will or…