Use confident body language. This means that you are relaxed, spread out and that you are willing to make yourself vulnerable by smiling, joking and exposing your most sensitive areas.
Speak slowly, powerfully and without stuttering or stammering (if possible).
Gesticulate as you talk, speak with your body as well as with your voice – remember that 70% of communication is non-verbal.
Tell stories, use repetition, build suspense – don’t be afraid to make your audience wait for the next line.
Place your hands on things or lean against them to signal ownership. Lean on a doorframe to indicate you feel as though you ‘won the room’.
When you have something you love, then you have less reason to be influenced by what others think and you can gain that sense of success and of encouragement from doing what you do and being good at it.
This is due to the law of attraction, which is to say that when you give off a certain impression, you attract things of a similar ilk in your life.
In other words, if you are confident and passionate, then you will attract confident passionate people. People will be confident in you, they will trust you more and they will be more inspired by you.
When you are confident in your own ability, you are more likely to take chances, to go out on a limb and to pursue things you might not otherwise.
If you feel confident, you act confident. People treat you differently, you start to make things happen. Thus, you become confident.
With that in mind, one easy way to start building confidence is to dress correctly.