Be More Self-Confident: Stop Feeling Inferior

This lesson gives you a quick overview of the 5 strategies we'll discuss to help you overcome feelings of inferiority.

In this lesson you will learn how the habit of comparing yourself to other people, for better or for worse, leads to distortions and only resluts in feelings of inferiority or superiority; both of which are damaging to you personal, social, and professional opportunities.

This lesson features a set of exercises (printable worksheet) that will help you stop making inappropriate comparisons of yourself to other people.

This lesson suggests that you can diminish feelings of inferiority by committing to pursue expertise in a specific area. In addition, you will learn how selecting an area to develop expertise in that contributes to the well-being of other people has the greatest effect on your self-esteem.

This lesson contains a set of exercises (printable worksheet) that will help you begin identifying possible areas to develop expertise in.

This lesson discusses how we often "externalize" the sources of our own self-esteem and how that provides a poor foundation for feeling good about ourselves.

You will work through a series of exercises to identify inappropriate dependencies on external sources for your self esteem, and initiate habits that help you regain control of how you feel about yourself.

In this video, you will learn how to satisfy your own needs by working to fulfill those same needs in other peoples' lives.

This set of exercises will help you identify what you think you need most from others, and then develop a simple plan to start giving that to them.

This video will help you realize how negative self-talk may be contributing to a sense of inferiority. You begin to understand that by controlling your internal dialogue, you can multiply positive message of reinforcement to yourself.

This set of exercises will help you elminate self-manufactured distorions about yourself and your circumstances and introduct things you can do to improve your self-talk.

This lesson provides a quick review to summarize and reinforce the main points from this course.

This lesson contains a downloadable/printable PDF quick refernce guide you can use to recall and reinforce the important points from this course.

This lesson contains a brief example of how forgiveness is necessary, often as a first step, in overcoming feelings of inferiority in your life.

This lesson contains a link to download a compressed, .zip folder containing all the audio files for this course. Listen to them while you are on-the-go to revisit what you learned in this course.

You can listen to all the audio for this course, uninterrupted, by playing the audio file in this lesson (1 hour 15 minutes).