You may have a difficult time trusting yourself. Don’t despair. You are not alone. It is something that many people experience, and find difficult to overcome. When you lose trust in others, you start to lose trust in yourself. When you lose trust in yourself, it’s difficult for others to trust you.

To help you overcome this problem, you need to focus on key aspects of trust. The first is to have faith in your accomplishments. If you pass off your accomplishments as being minimally important, when you need to rely on them, the lack of importance you have assigned them won’t permit those accomplishments to serve you. That is certain to interrupt the process of trusting yourself. Cheer on your accomplishments. Assign each one great value as you would if someone else did them.

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? As a believer, we are listening to the Spirit of God guide us. When we lean into Him and trust Him, we will be trusting Him as we trust ourselves.

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 and fill in what you don’t. This will relieve the burden of you having to do everything. That will help open the possibilities to increase trust in yourself.

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 what is good, true, honorable, right, and pure in your life, the easier it will be to trust God and trust yourself. A good first step towards this goal is to avoid negative people. They work hard to try to bring others down.

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. The paralysis of analysis is a real thing, but you can avoid it. 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.

Refuse to view any failure as fatal. When you fail, when a risk you took doesn’t pan out, choose to recognize that as education. You’ve learned one way that will not take you to your goal. Sit down and map out another path. Be passionate about your success, and never let failure be the reason you stopped working toward that success.