I have noticed that those people I know who are universally loved are also fairly loud people.

I need to be more confident and assertive. This is my main problem. But even when I am confident, I am not assertive primarily because I’m a fairly quiet. Right now, I’m working on faking confidence by simply being louder when I talk. I’m not sure how to constantly remind myself to increase the volume up a notch when I’m speaking, but I have to reset my baseline volume so I’m constantly louder.