EP. 73 | Better Than Confident - The 3 H's

Aug 21

Confidence has become the thing everyone's waiting for to deliver their 'dream' life.

Once I'm more confident, I'll launch it. Once I'm more confident, I'll speak up. Once I'm more confident, I'll apply, I'll move, I'll ask.

And so we wait...

Here's the problem with confidence - it's fragile. It goes up when things go well and falls flat the second they don't. Which means the one time you need it most is the exact moment it abandons you.

In this episode I'm sharing three qualities I think are wildly underrated - and far better to build your life on than confidence. They're not feelings you have to wait for. They're choices you can make right now, today, before you've achieved a single thing or proven you're any good at it.

I'll walk you through what each one actually means (the first one especially - most people get it completely wrong), why they work hardest precisely when things are going badly, and the one question that unlocks each of them in the moment you need it.

I also tell you about the time I walked on stage having realised something about my lapel mic that I'd very much prefer to forget. You'll cringe. I've made peace with it.

In this episode:
— Why "once I'm more confident" is the sentence keeping you stuck
— The quality most people mistake for playing small (it's the opposite)
— How to survive something going badly without it meaning anything about you
— The two answers you have to every important question — and why you only ever say one out loud
— What's really sitting underneath "I don't know" (in ten years of coaching, it's almost always one of four things)
— Take yourself less seriously. Take your life more seriously.

If something stirred while you were listening — a whisper of what you actually want, and the reason you've been telling yourself you can't go after it yet — let's talk about it.

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