have more self confidence

Its been hard. I try to psyche myself out and think it is okay to look people in the eye. My boss especially but then something stops me and I go back into cowering. I am always thinking.. “Is there something on my teeth? Should I have waxed my face this week?” and because of this I shy away. I find myself looking in the mirror at my skin, looking at every thing. What I want is to look people in the eye, and keep both my head and shoulders up.

Lately, I have been doubting a lot of my abilities. In high school, I was the over-achiever, but in college, I have experienced a slight identity crisis. Now, all of the confidence that I used to have seems to have disappeared. I am doing very well in my classes; I have no good reason to feel so negative about myself. But when I succeed at something, I just keep thinking about how my classes will just keep getting harder. I can’t stop this cycle of degrading myself.

i want more self confidence because i am very self concious of my body and i dont think im very attractive:[

This is coming along nicely for various reasons. I have left my old life behind, started a university degree and moved house, leaving all my furniture behind. I don’t even own my own bed! But it’s all fantabulous – really. Finally I feel as though I have some control over my own life. I’m still having problems with stuff like presentations, but I’m working on that and am seeing some progress – had to do a whole seminar presentation on how the usefulness of the national census in academic historical research, and didn’t fluff once. Yay me!

because i seriously lack it…

Talll :), skinny :), acne :’(
high school started, kids are cruel
advice?

Its not that I don’t have self-confidence; just in the wrong areas. I tend to sabotage relationships by lacking dating self-confidence even though I have no problem meeting women. My life-long search for more self-confidence is probably also why am an exercise fanatic.

i really want to be confident and people tell me im pretty but i never believe them. im worried though that if i start believing the compliments and start thinking im pretty that i will become full of myself!
how do i find that inbetween?

i want to look at myself in the mirrior and actually smile. i dont want to be jealous of how other people look and i dont want to compare myself to other people anymore. i guess i just got to work on my own body until im actualy happy. but one of my fears is, what if im NEVER happy with my body? =\

Even in the house I live in, I’m often times apprehensive to even leave my room to make food for myself and most of all go to the bathroom. I don’t really feel that welcome and don’t want to be a burden on them by taking the bathroom or microwave when they need it.

But this is exactly the kind of stuff I need to get over. They’re adults, they won’t care that I live my life just like they do. I lowered their rent, so they should be grateful and I should be able to use the bathroom and kitchen whenever I want.