How to Increase Your Belief in Your Abilities

5 Ways You Can Strengthen Your Personal Power to Achieve What You Want

Neel Raman
5 min readJan 22, 2021

If you know how to increase your belief in your abilities, you will gain more confidence to achieve what you want much easier.

The results you achieve reflect your beliefs. If you have positive, empowering beliefs, you have a better chance to accomplish your goals.

If you have negative or limiting beliefs, you will struggle to get what you want. If you have not created the lifestyle you want, it’s highly probable your beliefs need an upgrade.

Most times, the beliefs people hang onto are false, which does not support them to create the life they want.

What Does it Mean to Increase Your Belief?

To increase your belief means to gain the understanding you are responsible for all aspects of your life. If an area of your life is not what you would like it to be, it’s knowing you can improve it.

Increasing your belief means owning your personal power. It’s about developing confidence in your abilities to figure things out and create the what you want.

It’s also about embracing your challenges and finding the inner strength to overcome them.

Things Will You Gain When You Increase Your Belief in Your Abilities

The benefits of increasing your belief in your abilities include:

  • You will have a positive attitude.
  • Your overall health will improve.
  • You will better influence others.
  • Your productivity and performance will improve.
  • You will feel better about yourself.
  • You will handle stress well.
  • You will focus more on what’s important.
  • You will be happier.

Developing the beliefs that will get you to the outcomes you want will lead to more success and a better quality life.

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When I started creating new content regularly, I didn’t have experience writing articles. Initially, I did not have the belief or confidence I knew I needed to write articles that were useful or interesting.

To increase my belief in my writing abilities, I studied writing techniques and learned from mentors who were doing what I wanted to. Although I learned a lot from them, the best way I could improve was to write consistently.

The more I wrote and asked for feedback, the more my writing evolved. As my writing improved, my belief in my ability to write well continued to increase.

The act of writing every week for many years has helped honed my writing skills. It has also given me the belief I can create valuable content using the power of words.

5 Ways to Increase Your Belief in Your Abilities

It’s important to continue to strengthen your beliefs in your abilities if you want to achieve your goals.

Here are five ways to increase your belief in your abilities, so you can feel confident you are moving in the right direction and getting closer to achieving what you want.

  1. Have the right social support. Having people who will encourage you to keep going when things get difficult is important. The right network of people who want the best for you will give you the confidence to believe in your dreams and goals.
  2. Live into the reality you want. If you had the ability to do what you want, what would you do? How would you act? You can live the reality you want now by acting as if you have the belief to achieve what you want.
  3. Create a personal growth plan. To increase your belief, you will need to learn and develop yourself. A personal growth plan will help narrow your focus to what’s most important. That will help clarify the actions you need to take daily.
  4. Question your beliefs through regular challenges. If you have resistance taking an action you know you should, that’s a sign you have beliefs that are not serving you. Beliefs usually reveal themselves as excuses. If you question your beliefs, you will quash your excuses. A powerful way to overcome the beliefs that hold you back is to do things that take you out of your comfort zone.
  5. Acknowledge your successes. You would not be where you are in life if you did not have certain skills and abilities. That is worth celebrating. You’ve had many successes, therefore acknowledging them will reinforce your belief in your abilities.

Final Thoughts

When you learn to increase your belief in your abilities, you will develop more of your potential and strengthen your personal power. That will make a positive difference in your life and those who matter most.

Increasing your belief will also allow you to express your real self, which means you will accept who you are and how you can share it with others.

Action Step: Select one goal or outcome you want that you have not achieved yet. Evaluate your beliefs about what is required to achieve it. Identify actions you can take to reach that goal, then develop the beliefs you need to achieve success.

Question: What are other ways to increase your belief in your abilities?

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Neel Raman
Neel Raman

Written by Neel Raman

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