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What does it mean to stay confident in yourself?<\/p>\n
Ask anyone and there’s a range of answers that people will suggest. Confidence can be pridefulness in your own skills and prowess. Confidence could be stubbornly clinging to thoughts and expressing them with conviction. Other times, it can stem from a feeling of joy and from what you are doing and who you are being correct in your mind.<\/p>\n
Confidence doesn’t necessarily mean being right or wrong, but I see it as a means of pushing forward and a form of growth. Learning who you are, how you react to things in your life, and adapting as best as you can is living. And expressing that to those around you is confidence.<\/p>\n
Getting to that point is different from person to person, but here are some unconventional approaches to having the confidence that you need to stay true to who you are.<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/theweirdguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Confidence-in-yourself-1.jpg” alt=”A woman in a sweater flexing” title_text=”Confidence in yourself” _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_heading title=”Stay Confident Through Curiosity” _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
There are several ways to be growing, but one that isn’t often stressed much is confidence through learning. With the internet at our fingertips, there is a ton of information available to us.<\/p>\n
Although these days this information can be misleading, AI-generated, or outright ineffective.<\/p>\n
Even so, curiosity can lead to confidence and to stay confident in ourselves as it pushes us to take action. This is what learning is all about after all since even if you get burned, you’re still gaining something and you can use that information moving forward.<\/p>\n
Cultivating curiosity in your life is also not that challenging. You have to be willing to ask yourself questions and to explore those possibilities. It’s entertaining different perspectives as well and factoring them into your decision.<\/p>\n
Curiosity isn’t about changing your opinion constantly or putting doubt on everything you know; after all, nuance can always be a grey area depending on what’s being covered. For example, there are studies conducted that show that Paleo diets are good for you<\/a>, but there are some that show the claims are unsupported<\/a>. The important part is figuring out what you believe and what you value and making some adjustments. As in the case with the Paleo diet, if you want to try it out, it would be wise to do so over a 12-week period rather than trying to make it the diet you stick to for the rest of your life. Especially in the case where you’re trying to lose weight.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_heading title=”Confidence Through Conviction” _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Life experiences are interesting in several different ways. For one, two people can go through similar situations in life, and both can come out with completely different lessons. Whatever those lessons are can be either right or wrong in certain contexts as they go through life. Furthermore, those beliefs can further shape our lives and how we see them.<\/p>\n Confidence is taking all of that in and drawing your own conclusions. To stay confident is to stick to those convictions and to reinforce what those mean to you.<\/p>\n In practice, building conviction is about knowing who you are and what you stand for. It’s self-discovering and also checking up on yourself from time to time and stress-testing those beliefs. People change after all, and sometimes experiences in life can get us to change certain views of ourselves.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_heading title=”Stay Confident Through Adaptability” _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Staying confident is not something we’re all born with or that we have or don’t have. It’s something that’s built up throughout our lives as we experience life, confront our values, and understand more about who we are. As a result, being flexible with our identity to some degree can make a big difference in maintaining our confidence and staying true to who we are.<\/p>\n People change, but the self-help industry often skips over\u00a0how much\u00a0<\/em>we change in a given day or year. And the reality is that change happens little or not very noticeably.<\/strong> It’s not exactly stubbornness, but more like the experiences we’ve gone through in life have refined us to see the world in a specific way, and we’ve never had the opportunity to challenge it or think differently.<\/p>\n These aspects about ourselves can persist and steer our lives into where we are now, and for a lot of people, they end up wondering how or why they ended up there in the first place.<\/p>\n Those of us who are confident don’t experience that as much when we spend time knowing who we are and start to challenge certain things that we’ve experienced in our lives. That and learning to adapt with the time and to formulate specific rules for us to live by and to reinforce them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_heading title=”Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.” _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Every person is capable of finding motivation and energy to try something out, take some leaps, and experience something new. Confidence is being able to do that exact same thing on a regular basis.<\/p>\n To repeat and repeat and repeat again.<\/p>\n It can be nerve-wracking, but just like with habit building, the only way something will ever stick is if it’s reinforced and it’s done with pride. Where confidence can really begin to shine and help you stay true to who you are is a matter of stress testing this new activity you’re picking up. In practice it’s asking yourself questions such as the following:<\/p>\n Repetition only becomes appealing when you have personal reasons for doing so. Everyone loves the idea of losing weight or having the perfect beach body, but very few people will actually strive to achieve that. The difference between those individuals can be related to confidence in their own skills and choosing to get to the gym, go for that walk\/run, and attach that to something truly meaningful in their lives.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_heading title=”Stay Confident Through Your Statements” _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n If there is one person that you want to keep your promises to, it would be yourself.<\/p>\n Throughout my life and no doubt yours, there are so many times where we’ve told ourselves…<\/p>\n We’ll get this done some other day, but never do.<\/p>\n We promise to set a new resolution that we want to work towards and just give up a few months later.<\/p>\n The list goes on and on, but we never really consider how big of a deal something like that is. In the case of our confidence and staying confident, these kinds of actions can paralyze us for so long, and we don’t even realize it.<\/p>\n I got this sentiment quite recently as I’m looking to work on my coaching techniques and offer coaching services to people. For so long, I’ve kept to chatting with some of my friends online, working on other blog posts or Youtube scripts, or going for walks, that I’ve started to notice some old isolationist tendencies coming back.<\/p>\n Trying to talk to new people is a bit of a nerve-wracking experience for me, or I start ruminating about potential bad scenarios that could happen.<\/p>\n All of this behaviour stems from me delaying what I’ve been wanting to do for so long and simply putting it off some other day.<\/strong><\/p>\n All of this begins to fade away once you make a statement and stick to it. To allow yourself to experience whatever outcome may arrive. To go with the flow and move your mental self to the side. Normally, the outcome is not as bad as you thought it would be. Better yet, it could be rather fun as you break yourself in and discover a new aspect of yourself.<\/p>\n Or refine who you wish to be and carve yourself into that.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/theweirdguru.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Stay-confident-and-prideful.jpg” alt=”A silhouette of a woman reaching towards the sky” title_text=”Stay confident and prideful” _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_heading title=”Stay Confident And True To Yourself” _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_heading][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.7″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Confidence to its core isn’t always about saying yes to everything coming your way and being confident that things will work out. Confidence and staying true to who you are are about self-discovery and identity, followed by reinforcement and refinement of those building blocks. Confidence looks and feels differently depending on the situation that you are dealing with.<\/p>\n Sometimes it is saying yes to opportunities that speak to you.<\/p>\n Other times it’s saying no, as what’s being asked of you would be betraying some of your core values and priorities.<\/p>\n Not everything is so black and white, of course, but confidence and taking steps back to work through scenarios can make a big difference in your own life. So if you’re looking to gain confidence or stay confident, consider giving these a shot.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What does it mean to stay confident in yourself? Ask anyone and there’s a range of answers that people will suggest. Confidence can be pridefulness in your own skills and prowess. 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