Closing the 18-Inch Gap Podcast-EP061: Build Confidence Today And Achieve Your Dreams!

If you're going to achieve your dreams, confidence is a must. But how do you get it? How can you keep it once you have it? Confidence will ebb and flow, go up and down, some days you have more and other days you'll have less. That's normal. But it is true that you will need it to move forward. Confidence is a skill and the good thing about it is that it can be learned. So today we can look at how you can grow your confidence and keep moving forward making those dreams come true. As a dream realization partner, today I will be going over tips on how to do this. Which one resonates most with you?

Quote of the week: "You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty."― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Points covered:

1. The first tip is to be your own role model: be prouder yourself, live your values every day.

2. Express yourself: share what you think and feel with others. Unless you speak up no one will be able to hear you. Don't drown the inner voice and you and bottle it up.

3. Challenge yourself: if you've been hearing me for a while you know I've said repeatedly to expand your comfort zone. In order to do this you have to stretch yourself, persevere above everything else and overcome obstacles.

4. Only your opinions about you matter! The truth is that what other people think about you is not your business. I have told my adult self that more times than I can possibly count.

5. No more negative self-talk: this ties into the previous point. When you pay attention to the negativity that others either say or you think they are saying is going to lead to negative self-talk.

6. Forgive your mistakes: does no such thing as failure, only learning. Failures if you never learn something from it.

7. You are awesome! You're also only one-person, unique, once-in-a-lifetime creation! There will never be another you because you are only you and no one else can be like you.

8. Don't waste energy comparing yourself to others: like I said in the past you looking someone else's front stage as what they are performing.

9. Excellence not perfection: perfection is a myth because nothing is perfect. It never is and never will be. It's a perception at best. And what you may seem to think is perfect is not perfect to someone else.

10. Don't leave yourself behind: love yourself for who you are. All of you. The good and the not so good. Work on what you can work on and keep moving forward.

11. You have talents, discover them and use them: find what your strengths are in your talents and put them to use. Don't try to do everything because if you do, you'll achieve nothing.

Did anything resonate with you? Do you want to explore deeper how I can help you with this topic? If so, reach out to me and let me know. Simply send me an email to edwin@edwinsoler.com and let me know what your question is and how we can connect.

I always offer a free, complementary, coaching session where we can explore how I can help you and you can see coaching action for yourself.

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