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20 tips to everyday confidence
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Using your physiology
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The more you walk, stand and look confident on the outside the more you will begin to feel confident on the inside too.
Using your smile
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A simple smile is worth more than a hundred frowns.
When you smile, it is almost impossible to feel bad at the same time.
Whatever you are doing right now, smile and keep smiling for at least 15 minutes.
Practice using your SMILE everyday
Don’t judge yourself
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So often the reason we are afraid to do something, or try something new, is because we are afraid of failure.
We judge ourselves very harshly when things do not quite work the way we think they should or want them to.
If we judge ourselves, we also expect others to judge us, because we are doing the same to ourselves.
Instead of judging yourself for not doing something as well as you wanted to, or would like to, celebrate yourself for simply doing it.
Walking through your fears
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Fear takes away our confidence and replaces it with feelings of not being good enough.
We feel fear for a variety of reasons.
If you are feeling fear because you haven’t done something you should have done and someone is going to have a go at your, for not doing it, simply do whatever it is and get it out of the way.
If you spend most of your life in fear of things like:

What if I don’t get it right•
What if it doesn’t work•
What if someone laughs•
What if they don’t like me•
This is down to your lack of belief and confidence in yourself.
Each day, think of something small that you are fearful of doing and make the decision to just “do it”.
Release your guilt
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If we allow ourselves to feel guilty about something
we are lowering our confidence in ourselves and in our actions (or what we decide not to do)
I don’t believe that we should allow ourselves to feel guilty about anything in our lives.
If you don’t want to do something - learn to simply say “NO”
If you know that if you do something you will feel guilty afterwards - simply “don’t do it in the first place”
Acknowledge and celebrate yourself
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Start noticing everyday what you have done throughout the day, no matter how small it is, remember all the things you do on auto-pilot too.
At the end of everyday saying “well done” to yourself for everything you have done, during the day fills your head with positive thoughts and creates more confidence in you as you realise everything that you are achieving
Create a positive image
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Always do your hair, wear clothes that make you feel good and accessorize yourself well. Make sure your clothes and shoes are always clean and well presented. Looking good on the outside improves you feelings of feeling good on the inside too.
Using Positive Affirmations
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Affirmations work directly on your subconscious mind and help change old, negative beliefs. It is important to remember that a belief, is simply a thought you have repeated to yourself over and over again, throughout your life. Eventually these “beliefs” becomes your inner “truths”.
Using positive affirmations everyday will re-frame your inner thoughts and you will begin to remove all those old negative thought patterns you have built up over the years.
What is the worst case scenario?
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Often you lack confidence to do something because you worry about the terrible consequences that may result, if it goes wrong, or doesn’t work, what it will feel like as you do it.
Most times, what we worry about before it happens, doesn’t actually become reality anyway.
Ask yourself what is the worst that can happen if I........?
If you can deal with that, then just do it and don’t worry about it beforehand.
If you can’t deal with it then simply don’t do whatever it is.
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Manual vs. Automated Testing

There are two main ways to perform split testing—either by hand, or with the use of software.

When you perform it by hand, you simply need to leave one version up until you have a statistically sound number of results, say 1,000 unique visitors, and write down your conversion rate. Then put up the second version you want to test, wait until you have another 1,000 unique visitors, and write down the conversion rate for the second version and compare the two.

This is a fairly complicated process, because you have to monitor your traffic carefully to ensure you don’t let the test run too long or not long enough, and that you’ve accurately counted the conversions generated only within each split testing period.

Fortunately, there’s a better way to perform split testing. Software like Split Test Monkey make is easy to perform split testing on a hands-off basis.

There are two ways to do this. You can either do A/B Dynamic testing, which tests individual elements on the same URL, or split URL/web page testing, which tests 2-6 completely different pages. This is done using a rotator link that you’ll send visitors to, showing visitors different versions of the page. Cookies are used to ensure visitors will see the same version of the page if they return later, too.

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Royalty Free

Royalty-free images are not necessarily free, despite having the word “free” in the name. Royalty-free actually refers to not needing to pay a royalty percentage or fee to the copyright holder for each use of the item.

For example, a musician who licenses use of his song to a company for a television commercial may receive a royalty payment every time that commercial airs. Or a celebrity who allows the use of their likeness on the cover of a book might get a percentage of all book sales.

Royalty-free images require a one-time payment for use, and generally require no further payments after that. There are minor exceptions to this, but generally once you pay for a photo, you can use it once and you won’t have to pay any additional money for it.

If you intend to use a royalty-free image for a printed item or something like a book cover, be sure to read the license carefully. Most stock agencies require you to pay a higher fee for use on things like t-shirts and posters that will be sold, and for things like book covers, have a limit to the number of copies that can be sold before another purchase is required. (It’s usually 250,000 copies, and most of us don’t sell that many copies of a single book, but it’s worth noting, just in case.)