Hi, I'm Helen from Amazing If.

And in this week's bonus episode, I am going to be sharing three ways that you can boost your confidence.

So number one, think about your language, both your body language and also the words you say.

In terms of the words you use, it might be that you are using words like just in emails or maybe in meetings that can

kind of play out when you're saying something like can I just say I'd just like to make this

point it's kind of underconfident language or maybe you might be saying something like it's probably

not right but to kind of preface the thing that you really want to say. Instead of using language

like that, be a bit more direct in what you're saying. So say things like, I have a question or

my recommendation is. It's much more bold. It's much more confident. It will make you feel more

confident, but it'll also make other people feel more confident about the thing that you're

saying. The second thing in terms of language is your body language.

So be aware of your own body language.

I think the first thing to do would probably be to get some feedback.

Just understand maybe you are crossing your hands or fiddling your fingers or crossing your legs

or sitting low down on chairs or with hunched shoulders.

Whatever it is, there are certain things

that you might be doing that might undermine your confidence in other people's eyes.

It's really, really good to get some feedback.

And then just take one thing forward at a time, or it might look really unnatural if you're

trying to work on everything all in one go.

But just take one thing forward, maybe that uncrossing of the legs or kind of the sitting

confidently at meeting table and just try and work on that and again get some feedback on how that

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