BF2S Forums Being more confident

Words to live by.

Buy new clothes, get a new haircut, smile, and don't take shit from anyone <-- that's the most important part.

Yeah, hold yourself well, dress to feel comfortable and realise that everyone's too tied up in their own lives to really care about any mistakes you make.

Another way to give yourself a bit of a confidence boost is to alter your thinking just a bit to think like a person or character you admire. Personally whenever I need a confidence boost I start thinking more like Alan Shore, (from the show Boston Legal.) Just that extra bit of arrogance and the inflated feeling of self-esteem only a script writer can provide can really help.

Dr. Quirkey's Goodtime Emporium, O'Connell St.

Last edited by CameronPoe (2008-01-21 15:27:29)

just tell everyone you see who pisses you off to suck it, if they're some authority figure and they say it's disrespectful, tell them to double suck it

My dad gave me some advice when I was about 6. "Just get on with it."

Quick fixes include: Getting drunk with friends (No offence, but if you have any.) Doing something to give you an adrenalin boost, doing something to the best of your ability and being very proud of it, whether it's a headshot on BF2, making a desk tidy, doing homework (If applicable.), doing whatever you do at work really well (If applicable.)

Only one thing can give you confidence. Accomplishments.

It doesn't matter if you're tall, short, skinny, fat, rich, poor, funny or droll. What gives you a sense of pride, and the accompanying self-confidence, is the knowledge that you have accomplished something.

I've known plenty of people who were rich because Daddy gave them money, and they weren't self-confident. They KNEW they hadn't earned it. I've known plenty of people who were this, that, or the other but if they didn't create something, build something, achieve something, they had no confidence.

Go out and climb a 14,000 peak. See if that doesn't give you some self-confidence. Try sky-diving. You do that once and you won't give a good shit what some 6'2" tall super-model looking ground hugging pussy boy thinks. Make straight "A"s for a year or two and tell me you won't feel good about yourself.

Skip the computer, skip drinking, skip fucking around and accomplishing nothing. Set yourself a goal, running a marathon, reading 5 classics and understanding them, acting in a local troupe for a season, hiking a killer trail, 100 averages in all your classes for 6 weeks, and then accomplish your goal. That and that alone will give you true inner self-confidence. Once you've done that you can do all the fucking around and drinking and playing BF2 you want.

I'm short (5'8"), slightly (and I mean slightly) above average in looks, and probably no more athletic than your average 40 year old white guy, but I am confident because I know if I lost it all tomorrow I could do it again. I KNOW that I can set myself a goal and do what it takes to reach that goal. Start learning how to do that, and the self-confidence will come. Deciding to do something and actually doing it will make you see yourself in a new light, and once that light is on, only you can let it go out. You'll develop faith in yourself when you've proven to yourself that you are a winner. Once you've got that faith in yourself, you'll be too busy kicking ass to have time to take names.

Last edited by Dersmikner (2008-01-21 15:28:08)

join the IRA

Play paintball.

I remember when I got my first elimination.

I felt so damn accomplished and confident.

..That might not help in day-to-day life though. Dunno...

Last edited by DefCon-17 (2008-01-21 15:41:15)

Get laid, that'll build it up.