Your English and your confidence are about to improve!

We all make mistakes. All of us. You and I and everyone else. We are not perfect. There are ways we can try to do better -- by being kind to someone or by thinking twice before we open our mouths to speak. But we are not going to get it right every time.

We don't always do the right thing. We say something wrong or forget a friend's birthday or buy a sweater that looked much better in the store than in our mirror at home. Mistakes are inevitable. We can't control everything. But we can control how we react.

If we learn from our errors, then our mistakes are actually something good! So smile, forgive yourself, apologize, trust yourself, accept yourself. Speak English, not with the confidence that you're going to say everything perfectly, but confident that everybody makes mistakes and that mistakes are OK!!

First things first:

Helping a client build self-confidence is the most important thing I can do for them.

Self-confidence is believing in our abilities and judgment.

Confidence helps us feel ready to conquer the world.

When we are self-confident, we see challenges as opportunities to look forward to.

We see the future with hope and enthusiasm.

We forgive ourselves for the mistakes we make and don't let other people's opinions become our reality.

Confidence is a belief. If you believe you can, then you can do or learn to do anything you need to do!!

Make confidence a habit. You can do it. In fact, you already feel confident about many things. Now let's boost your confidence in English!

David Luff, Coach, Business English Confidence

La confianza es una creencia. ¡Si crees que puedes, puedes hacer o aprender a hacer cualquier cosa que necesites hacer!

Haz de la confianza un hábito. Puedes hacerlo. De hecho, ya te sientes seguro de muchas cosas. ¡Ahora aumentemos tu confianza en inglés!

Body Language Expert Explains How to Show Confidence

Traits of Confident People . . . . .1:01

Modeling Confidence . . . . . . . . . 3:11

Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:50

Intonation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5:40

Cadence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:34

Nonverbals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:27

Public Speaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11:34

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13:11

Former FBI agent and body language expert Joe Navarro explains how we can project confidence through our body language. Joe takes a look at various celebrities and politicians and demonstrates the things that they do that can help them appear more confident.

Accept Yourself!

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” That's right, accept yourself and the whole world will accept you!

Words to Live by:

”The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be fearing you will make one.” -- Elbert Hubbard

”It's time to live the life you've only imagined.” -- Unknown

”Let go of those who bring you down and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.” -- Anonymous

”What weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.” -- Carlos Castaneda

”You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” -- Jonathan Safran Foer

”Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.” -- Savas Dimopoulos

"Waste no more time about what a good person should be. Be one." -- Marcus Aurelius

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." -- Unknown

"If you hear a voice within you say 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." -- Vincent Van Gogh

”Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.” -- Unknown

”Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them." -- Unknown

"The way to get started is to quite talking and begin doing." -- Walt Disney

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -- Winston Churchill

"A year from now you will wish you'd started today." -- Karen Lamb

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion." --Muhammed Ali

" When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -- Lao Tzu

“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.” -- David D. Burns

"Remember this: when you have exhausted all the possibilities, you haven't." -- Thomas Edison

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up." -- Nelson Mandela

"The secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage." -- Thucydides

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." -- Maya Angelou

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes." -- Mahatma Gandhi