Don't think of it as disregarding who you are now. Things like confidence and happiness are energies of within. They aren't something you can lack. What you can lack is expressing them.
Instead of plastering a fake smile on your face, give it a reason. Think of a funny anecdote, smile appropriately, and bring your happiness to a conscious level.
If you're not 'feeling' confident, just remember that it's the expressing of the confidence that you're not doing. Tap the inner resivoir, take a deep breath, and know that you are right in what you're doing. Consciously kick out doubt.
The 'fake it till you make it' approach in these matters is a little bit of a misnomer, because it's not that you're faking it, you're bringing about conscious change. Remember I said conscious change.
When you raise your level of awareness such that you can consciously tell yourself that you are happy, you are happy. When you can consciously smite doubt, confidence flows in easily.
Instead of acting as if, consciously decide to be.
Good Luck,
~BraveBlueMice
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