Build Confidence: Walk Faster!

Everyone wants to build confidence. So how can walking help you build confidence? It is easy if you change just a few things.

Everyone walks, and most people want more confidence, so how can we combine the two? Easy, just try to walk 25% faster. Look around the next time you are at the grocery store. Some people seem like they can barely stand, little alone walk. The people who are walking faster seem more confident because it seems like they are walking with purpose.

Try this simple exercise next time you want more confidence instantly. Just walk faster and with purpose and you will have more confidence.

Another thing besides walking faster is to walk with your shoulders back and your head up. Again just look around you and do some people watching.

Pick out the people you think are the most confident. Odds are they are the ones who are walking faster, with a sense of purpose, and with their shoulders and heads back.

Remember that motion creates emotion. If you walk slow with your head down you don’t have any motion, so how can you expect to have any emotion. Lift your head up and start walking faster and with purpose. You will have motion and hence more emotion, specifically confidence.

One little extra thing that you can do while you walk is to add affirmations, positive mantras you repeat silently to yourself. These affirmations could be anything from how you envision your life to be to any other goal. You can say your affirmation in rhythm with your steps.

This is another reason why walking faster is better, you can say your affirmations with more emotion when you are walking faster.

Luke Blaise