Building Confidence from a Jar

Confidence building can be one of the trickiest life changes one can make. It requires a lot of work and a lot of setbacks will be dealt along the way. One innovative technique anyone can do is what’s called a “confidence jar”.

It’s quite simple: First, find actions that you are uncomfortable with, tasks you have been putting off, or people you’ve wanted to introduce yourself to. Some specific examples include, saying something nice to someone, or address a problem that you’ve been putting off for some time.

Once you have about 10 examples, type or write them onto little slips of paper. Find a mason jar (or anything else that will do the job), fold them and put them into it. Each morning when you wake up, shake the jar up and grab an action.

Take about an hour out of your day to address that action. Repeating these steps each morning will not only help you cross items off of your to-do list, they’ll help you in the long run with building assertiveness and confidence.

As your jar empties with tasks and plans, keep putting more in. Confidence will become second nature to you; which is not only important in career development, but personal development too.