"Quick Confidence Boosters" Woman's World Magazine
Date last updated: 12:22 pm May 6th, 2008
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Woman's World Magazine
March 2008
6 'Surgery Free' Ways to Boost Your Confidence
by A. Jolles- Side Bar
Do a little dance.
Turn on your favorite song and get moving: Your body will release empowering feel-good hormones!
Try the Mary Lou Retton trick.
Copy her open-armed “ta-da!” stance when you need a boost. “It fills you with confidence,” says life coach Anne Jolles.
Give yourself permission to make a mistake!
“Knowing it’s okay not to be perfect gives us confidence to try more things,” Jolles says.
Wear the sunshine color!
Studies suggest that yellow naturally boosts confidence.
Laugh.
Try a favorite sitcom, even a favorite joke; laughter fires up reactions in the body that make us feel bolder.
Drop your voice a bit.
Speaking in a lower register sounds confident to us—and that “tricks” the brain into feeling confident, too.