8 Signs You Lack Confidence in Yourself

Anil Lakesar
2 min readJul 14, 2022

To build a strong personality, Confidence is one of the most important traits for a person. It makes you trust yourself and make decisions for yourself without any self-doubt. It can make you achieve your goals with ease. It is also said that confidence is key to a successful person. On the other hand, if you lack confidence, then there are chances that you may suffer from losses like missing an opportunity, or a person too.

It is true that only you know what you feel and what is going on in your mind, but there are some signs that make it clearly visible that you are not confident enough. These signs can be based on how you appear, how you talk, how you behave, etc. This post is made only to make you aware of the signs that imply that you lack confidence. It is important to know about your flaws and strengths so that you can improve yourself. These are 8 signs that show you lack confidence.

Signs You Don’t have enough Confidence

1. You always need someone to go out with

Have you ever gone out for lunch or dinner on your own with any friend or a person? If the answer is no, then it is a clear sign that you are not confident enough in yourself and you are dependent on others even for a lunch. You don’t go alone because you may think that people will stare at you and notice that you don’t have anyone to hang out with. But the truth is, you are just overthinking, people just don’t care as much about you that you think. Your fear of being alone stops you from trusting yourself and makes you doubt yourself. The company of friends is good but always asking them whenever you want to go out somewhere shows that you lack confidence.

2. You are slouching or showing bad body posture

It is found in studies that your body postures can reveal so many things about your personality. If you show a poor body posture or your body appears to be slouching or shrinking that you are compressing yourself into you, then this indicates that you are not confident enough and you are nervous. Some other poor body postures that show that you lack confidence are:

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Anil Lakesar

Hey there, I am a freelance writer, a blogger who writes on personality development, life lessons and psychological things.