Learning how to be more confident can be a stressful process in and of itself. But if you want to gain self-confidence and figure out how to deal with stress, learning to love yourself and practicing self-care is vital. But confident people know that the key to believing in themselves lies in their ability to handle things despite being stressed out, in an efficient and reliable way. It is certainly not easy to shift out of a worried mindset into a sense of calm and confidence. How many times have you felt calm only to awaken feeling stressed and hopeless the next day — or even the next minute? It’s frustrating and demoralizing. You may even believe that a calm state is just luck or fake, and the stressed-out person is the real you. This roller coaster ride that climbs and dives between motivated and defeated creates an internal pattern of insecurity. How can you trust yourself if you are excited and ready to go on Tuesday and completely stuck on Wednesday? And there are …