EP16: 3 Ways to Build Your Self-Belief and Confidence
Did you know that we begin building our self-belief at birth? In this True Stride episode, we take a wise walk to discuss the importance of self-belief and confidence in our lives.
Our confidence grows every time we test our abilities, and as babies, those struggles allow us to feel the rush of satisfaction when our efforts pay off. Babies learning to walk is a great analogy for our wise walk today, because the more we fearlessly go after what we want, the more value, self-belief, and confidence we gain.
We have to trust our intuition like babies do and know that real growth comes from putting ourselves out there and trying again and again. Every time we try, fail, and pick ourselves back up, we gain self-belief and confidence. Building self-belief and confidence are like building muscles; you have to use them every day. Your big strider's call to action is to embrace your child's intuition and follow what is calling you.
I invite you to test your abilities, see struggle as expansion, and lean on your self-belief to start small. This approach applies to anything new in your life, whether it's a new job or a new role, or a new relationship. When you show up, embrace expansion, and try, you will learn, grow, and make strides. Be patient with yourself; self-belief doesn't happen overnight.
In this episode:
[00:06] Welcome to the show!
[02:13] If babies didn't struggle, they wouldn't feel that rush of satisfaction when their efforts paid off.
[02:44] When you think about the areas of your life that you feel confident in, did you struggle before you succeeded?
[02:53] What is something you really want to do?
[02:57] How can you build self-belief and stay positive?
[03:05] Where in your life can you adopt a child's fearless intuition to test your abilities and find your stride?
[04:17] Watching babies is so inspirational, because they know that they can do more.
[07:03] We have to trust our intuition like babies do to see that real growth comes from putting ourselves out there and trying again and again.
[08:23] Every time we try, fail, and pick ourselves back up again, we gain self-belief and confidence.
[10:12] The feelings of lacking self-belief and confidence are what holds us back.
[12:10] Building our self-belief and confidence is like building muscle; we have to use them every day.
[13:21] Our efforts and choices today support our overall growth and confidence.
[14:25] Children will rise up to your expectations, so don't put limits on them.
[15:58] What stands out in your value vault that lights you up?
[17:13] Our big strider's call to action is to embrace our child's intuition and follow what's calling us.
[18:36] Thank you so much for listening.
Memorable Quotes:
- "The more we fearlessly go after what we want at any age, the more value self-belief and confidence we gain."
- "We need the struggle to expand, know what's possible, and to want more for ourselves."
- "Our babies are masters at trusting their inner compass, so they naturally follow their intuition to move, feel, choose, and act."
- "I know how easy it is to get overwhelmed when we look at the long game."
- "Our efforts and choices today support our overall growth and confidence."
- "Confidence is powerful."
- "As a baby, and even in our childhood years, we don't have the distractors or negative nitwits putting limits on us."
- "Regardless of your secret something or what path you are on, trust your childlike inner compass to show up, stand up, and get your stride on."
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