Do THIS To BE MORE CONFIDENT! (7 Precise Steps for Speaking English)

Do you want to become confident  with the English language and be  

able to express your ideas confidently in English?

Well, in this video, let me share 7 habits of  

highly confident students to help  you become confident a lot faster.

Welcome back to JForrest English.

Of course, I'm Jennifer.

Now let's get started.

Habit number one, highly confident  students are OK with mistakes.

I have to be honest with you if you're afraid of  

making mistakes or if you get upset  when you make mistakes in English.

If you think making mistakes is something to be  avoided, you shouldn't be learning a language.

Because learning a language, learning anything,  in fact, is all about making mistakes.

Making mistakes is how you learn,  and confident students understand  

that they're OK with going to a job interview and  explaining their background and making a mistake.

They don't view that as a  completely negative thing.

They understand that they  will make mistakes in English.

They likely even make minor  mistakes in their native language,  

and they will make mistakes  in everything that they do.

So the very first thing that you need  to do to truly become confident is  

get comfortable with making mistakes  because you will make a lot of them.

Now, next year, in five years, 10  years, you will always make mistakes.

Habit #2.

Highly confident students  take risks and try new things.

A confident student will raise their  hand in a meeting and share their idea.

Even if they're not 100% sure it's a  good idea or they're not 100% sure,  

they can communicate it perfectly.

Because remember, tip #1, highly confident  students are OK with making mistakes.

A lot of students will wait to try public  speaking, or we'll wait to join a social  

group in English or a new activity  in English until they've improved  

their English because they think their English  needs to be perfect again, Habit number one.

But confidence students?

They're OK with just getting out  there, going for the job interview,  

joining a new team, joining  a new course or an activity.

And it's by trying all these new things, by  taking risks that they gain the experience.

Because confidence is really about seeing,  proving to yourself that you can do something,  

and you can only prove to yourself that  you can do it if you've actually done it.

So get out there, take new  risks and try new things.

That's what confidence students do.

Habit #3.

Highly confident students don't criticize or judge  

others because they understand  that learning is a process.

They understand that perfect does not exist.

They understand they have their own mistakes,  their own areas that they're trying to improve,  

and they would never want  to criticize someone else.

But I see this with some of my  students, and it really upsets me.

Sometimes a student will write something in  a YouTube comment and another student will  

criticize that person because they made a grammar  mistake, or they said it in an awkward way.

Or I hear students criticize other  students because of their accents.

That shows the insecurity of the student.

If they're criticizing someone else  because they're making English mistakes,  

they make their own mistakes.

So it just shows that they are  very insecure about their own  

mistakes and they're projecting that onto others.

Confident people.

They don't criticize and they don't judge  because they understand that perfect doesn't  

exist and they respect others for trying,  for taking risks and trying new things.

Habit #4.

Highly confident students are always  learning and always improving.

A lot of students, they have this  idea that they can get to a certain  

level and then they're done learning  a language or done learning anything.

But that's just not how it works.

Imagine your doctor graduated from medical  school and never learned anything new.

Would you want that person to be your doctor?

Of course not.

Everyone keeps learning and  keeps trying to improve.

You're never going to get to a point where  you're just done learning the English language.

There's always something new to learn,  a new skill to develop and improve,  

and highly confident students, they  recognize that and they embrace it.

They love learning new things.

They love improving themselves.

They understand that learning is a process,  a process, and they enjoy the process.

It's not about getting to this final  destination where they're fluent.

It's about every day, every week,  

every month, every year in proving just  a little bit in seeing that progress.

Habit #5.

Confident students prepare a lot.

Sometimes people think well when  you're confident you can just go  

into a situation without doing any  preparation, without doing any work.

That is not true at all.

The most confident people are taking  the time to prepare and prepare.

Prepare before a job interview, prepare before a  presentation, prepare before recording a video.

Like I'm doing now.

I prepared for this for hours because I under  understand that is in the preparation that I'm  

able to improve, I'm able to do a better job  and I'm able to become even more confident  

because I've prepared O for you going  into a language exam, a job interview,  

even going into a social situation  where you'll be introducing yourself.

It's all about preparing and  that is what confident people do.

Habit number six of highly confident  students is they invest in themselves.

They invest in themselves by learning new things.

They invest in themselves by spending the time.

They invest in themselves by spending the money.

They understand that in order to get the result  they need to invest, they're investing their time,  

their energy, their focus, of course,  their financial resources as well.

And they're doing this because  they have the confidence.

They have the confidence Confidence to say yes,  

I am worth investing $500 in  my development is worth $500.

And they also have the confidence to know  that I am going to earn more money in the  

future because of this investment  or because of the time I spend now.

I have the confidence in myself that I  can earn more based on this investment.

Highly confident students.

They look for opportunities to  constantly invest in themselves.

And finally, habit #7 of highly confident students  is they understand that confidence is a skill.

Confidence is a skill and you  can absolutely develop it.

How do you develop confidence?

Well, all of these habits will help.

And if you want to develop confidence, the best  thing you can do is just recognize it's a skill.

It's not something that you're just born with.

I didn't wake up confident  recording YouTube videos.

My confidence came from all of the  points that I previously mentioned.

A baby is not confident walking, but every  adult, you and I, we're confident walking now.

We've developed the confidence in all our areas  of our lives and a language is no different.

You can develop confidence.

Students are not born being confident  learning English or speaking English.

They developed that and you can develop it too.

So now you have 7 habits, 7 habits  of highly confident students.

And if you follow these habits well, then  you will be acting like a confident student.

You will be acting like a confident  English speaker and then you will  

become a confident English speaker,  confident with the English language.

So which habit do you think  you need to work on the most?

Put that in the comments and remember  confident people are okay with emitting that.

They don't know everything.

They don't feel insecure by saying I  need to work on this specific skill.

So if you want to be a confident person,  then put what skill you want to work on,  

what habit you want to work  on the most in the comments.

And this free speaking guide will  also help you develop your confidence.

It will help you improve your  English speaking in six easy steps.

You can get it for free,  

so you can click here to download it or  look for the link in the description.

And you can keep improving your English with this  

lesson and I know it will help you  become a lot more confident as well.