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Rebuilding Confidence in Small Steps
For when your confidence has taken a knock and everything feels like a risk. Each day is one small, doable act of showing up, so evidence that you can builds one day at a time.
Confidence · Self-Esteem · Social Anxiety · one to-do a day · you choose how many days
The first seven days
- Day 1Write down three things you have done in your life that were hard at the time and that you managed.
- Day 2Speak first in one conversation today.
- Day 3Stand up straight, shoulders back, for one minute and notice how it changes your mood.
- Day 4Ask a question in a meeting, a class, or a shop today.
- Day 5Write down one skill you are good at and one piece of evidence for it.
- Day 6Wear something today that makes you feel like yourself.
- Day 7Say your opinion once today without adding "but I might be wrong."
Further into the year
The to-dos keep changing as the year goes on. A few from later in this theme:
- Day 30Read your list of small steps from this challenge and write down what you now know you can do.
- Day 60Give a compliment to a stranger, the cashier, the bus driver, someone in line.
- Day 120Bring one suggestion, not a question, to your next conversation with a manager, teacher, or organizer.
- Day 240Ask someone how they got started in what they do and take one note for yourself.
- Day 365Choose one small step from this whole year that changed something, and do it again today.
How a challenge works
A Theraglee challenge is a theme with one small to-do for every day of a year. You choose how long yours runs, anywhere from a week to the full year, and each day you get the next to-do: something that takes a few minutes and fits inside an ordinary day. Tick it off when it is done. Nothing is scored and nothing is lost if you miss a day; the next to-do is simply waiting when you come back.
Challenges come with a free Theraglee account, which never asks for a card. Your progress stays private to you.