Confidence Stealers - Who wins?

The people you have the most contact with will have either a positive or negative affect on your levels of self-esteem and confidence.

Do you allow them to steal your confidence?

How do the people around you make you feel?

Happy and joyful to be around? They walk into a room and everyone else’s attitude has a positive affect? People are excited to see them.

Negative thinkers who never see opportunities? Drain your energy and bring you down to their level? You want to look busy to get away from them?

What affect would you say your family has on you?

So to make sure the people you hang around empower and support what you stand for here are some tips:

1. You have the power to choose who you hang around with. Ideally you want to be with happy, vibrant and positive people. They want to be around you.

2. If you have friends who are most often negative and you still want to be around them let them know how you feel. True friends will respect you. Just acknowledge that this is what they are like and block out the negativity.

3. The same can be said for family. We might not know how they got that way so appreciate where they came from and again block out the negativity.

4. Remember, nothing has meaning in life except the meaning that you give it!