If you have a difficult time trusting yourself, don’t despair! You are far from alone. It is something that many people struggle with, and find very difficult to overcome. It is so easy to lose trust in yourself when other people hurt or disappoint you and you lose trust in them.
Focusing on key aspects of trust will help you overcome this problem. Here are 5 simple tips you can begin to practise today.
#1 Have faith in your accomplishments
The first is to have faith in your accomplishments. If you pass off your accomplishments as not being that important, when you need to rely on them, they won’t be there for you. That is sure to interrupt the process of trusting yourself.
#2 Trust Your Instincts
You also need to trust your instincts. You won’t always be right, but you will be more often than not.
An instinct is something you feel strongly about and does not come only from experiences. They come from something internal that no one can truly explain. It’s part of that inner voice that is telling you what to do. You need only listen.
How many times have you said to yourself that you should have listened to your instincts? 
#3 Rely On Others
You should rely on other people. If you open yourself up to letting others into your life, you will find that you become more trusting of yourself.
Whether you like it or not, you need other people. You can’t know everything there is to know about every subject.
Use the strengths of others to supplement what you know. It will take the burden away from you to do everything. That will help open the possibilities to put trust in yourself.
#4 Filter out negative information
Try to filter out negative information. You get bombarded with this throughout your life. It occurs every day in the news, at work, and in many cases, your home.
The more you learn to focus on positivity in your life, the easier it will be to trust yourself. A good first step towards this goal is to avoid negative people. They work hard to try to bring you down.
#5 Trust Yourself by Taking Some Chances
Trusting yourself sometimes requires a leap of faith.
Take some chances. While you want to be smart regarding the risks of your choices, you don’t want to overanalyze every decision you make.
If you do, you will never make any decisions, and you will stagnate.
It’s true that not everything will work out the way you plan. But, you will never know unless you try.
The good news is when you are ready to try, many of your decisions will work for you.
What are some other ways you have utilised to gain more self-trust? Please share in a comment below 🙂
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