Sometimes it can be tough to be brave and bold. Try these small steps to gain your confidence and take action:
- Ask for a raise
- Get a job
- Ask out someone for a date
- Make phone calls
- Go door-to-door
- Limit screen time
- Network
- Dress boldly
- Start something
- Ask for a divorce
- Propose
- Negotiate
- Sell everything in your life
- Move out from parent’s house
- Go on a trip alone
- Be assertive
- Resolve complaints
- Run a marathon
- Create a marketing strategy for your life
- Clean up your hoard
- Build something
- Have sex
- Gain muscle
- Talk to random strangers
- Knock on doors
- Write eBook
- Help the weak
- Toastmasters
- Run event for disabled people
- Talk to someone in Starbucks
- Drop something on floor and ask for refund
- Talk to someone on a train
- Join in on group discussions
- Dance with someone at club
- Go to mall and ask for phone numbers
- Ask a question in the middle of class lecture
- Ask for a kiss
- Start a bromance
- Find three friends of the opposite sex
- Help a senior cross the road
- Change directions on your morning run when another runner passes you; start a conversation with them
- Ask what book they’re reading
- Comment on someone’s piece of clothing attire
- Give critical feedback to someone in-person
- Start a conversation with someone in the grocery aisle
- Take a selfie with someone
- Say you ran out of change and ask if it’d be okay to take it for free with the promise to pay back
- Stand firm with your opinion
- Start a conversation with someone in a lineup
- Talk to the person next to you on airplane
- Travel to somewhere new
- Offer to carry schoolbooks home, without stealing them
- Remove all your stuff from your room and create an epic garage sale
- Speak in front of audience
- Ask out a church person
- Say no
- Walk around modeling agencies, asking for directions (get comfortable speaking with beautiful people)
- Go to Australia
- Eat new foods you’ve never tried
- Complete a fitness competition
- Start a support group around your problem
- Start a club
- Do a fun day every week
- Have a dinner conversation
- Go to a public sporting event
- Turn off your electronics for 24 hours
- Live a day in candlelight
- Stop texting for one day and only respond via phone call or in-person meet
- Connect with a long lost relationship
- Take shy people and help them be bold
- Grab a few all-stars you know and start a new venture
- Take your parents out for a nice dinner
- Act on one of your lifelong dreams
- Give critical feedback to a friend/colleague
- Write the book you can’t find in the bookstore
- Emulate your ideal self (start with one trait)
- Volunteer to contribute socially
- Quit your job
- Travel to a randomly selected spot on the map