--- title: How to Believe in Yourself Even More description: Regardless of what area of your life has you wanting more, you can start getting it by believing in yourself. canonical: https://time.com/4356649/believe-in-yourself-more/ author: Chris Winfield article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-07T12:00:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:02:39.184Z og:title: How to Start Believing in Yourself More og:description: Begin by pretending og:url: https://time.com/4356649/believe-in-yourself-more/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3599acfec5a605f8/69887b49524fc03cb2df6855/boxing-glove-body-image-fitness-health-strength-success.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2500 og:image:height: 1406 og:image:alt: boxing-glove-body-image-fitness-health-strength-success-motto-stock og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Start Believing in Yourself More twitter:description: Begin by pretending twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3599acfec5a605f8/69887b49524fc03cb2df6855/boxing-glove-body-image-fitness-health-strength-success.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # How to Start Believing in Yourself More > Sponsored content. 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Regardless of what area of your life has you wanting more, you can start getting it by believing in yourself. Granted, it can be quite challenging to do this, especially when there’s this tiny little voice inside your head constantly telling you that you’re not “good enough” or “smart enough” or “pretty enough” or _whatever_ enough. But here’s the thing: Those are just thoughts. And you can’t let these thoughts become your realities. _You can’t let these beliefs turn into your truths._ You have to combat them—here’s how. **Start by pretending**One option is to “fake it till you make it.” Just pretend that you’re a person who believes in themselves. It’s OK if you don’t fully believe yet. But it’s important that you believe and trust in yourself just _a little bit more_ than you don’t. In other words, you need to believe in your strengths and your abilities more often than you question them or think that they’re subpar. When you find self-doubt creeping in, making you feel weak and uncertain, imagine that you’re a powerful, prominent person with complete and total confidence. Train your brain to feel that way—and eventually it will. [_Follow Motto on Facebook_](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/)_._ **Flex your courage muscles**When you venture outside of your comfort zone and do things you wouldn’t ordinarily do, you’ll probably doubt yourself—but you’ll also get practice at overcoming that doubt. By putting yourself in these strength-building situations time and time again, you’ll begin to build your courage, and your self-confidence. **_Read more:_** [_The Most Important Thing I Learned At Harvard Business School_](http://motto.time.com/4355731/harvard-business-school-lessons/) **Make a success list**During those times when you don’t believe in yourself as much as you should, it helps to remember that you’ve already had success in your life—times when you felt unsure of yourself yet did great things anyway. [Make a list](http://tinybuddha.com/blog/how-to-believe-in-yourself-in-the-face-of-overwhelming-self-doubt/) of these types of the things, the things you’re proud of accomplishing, and refer to it when you need that little reminder of what you’re capable of. Use it to help you push past uncertainties so you can achieve success again. [_Chris Winfield_](http://www.chriswinfield.com/) _is a productivity expert who’s worked with companies like Disney, Virgin, Macy’s, Viacom, Conde Nast, Intuit, NBC and others._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4356649/believe-in-yourself-more/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4356649/believe-in-yourself-more/"},"headline":"How to Start Believing in Yourself More","datePublished":"2016-06-07T12:00:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:39.184Z","description":"Begin by pretending","url":"https://time.com/4356649/believe-in-yourself-more/","keywords":["motto","advice"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3599acfec5a605f8/69887b49524fc03cb2df6855/boxing-glove-body-image-fitness-health-strength-success.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chris Winfield","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/chris-winfield/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3599acfec5a605f8/69887b49524fc03cb2df6855/boxing-glove-body-image-fitness-health-strength-success.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"boxing-glove-body-image-fitness-health-strength-success-motto-stock","caption":"boxing glove body image fitness health strength success motto stock","creditText":"Peechaya Burroughs for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4356649/believe-in-yourself-more/","name":"How to Start Believing in Yourself More"}}]}] ```