THE SECRET INGREDIENT FOR CONFIDENCE
Want to know the key to feeling confident?
Nope, it’s not being perfect and making no mistakes.
It’s also not being “fearless” or never having doubts.
The first and most important step to developing confidence is…
Courage❤️🔥
(*combined with the commitment to showing up again and again like a champ🏆)
Think about your first day at your current job… things probably felt foreign and unfamiliar, maybe you even felt a bit lost and intimidated.
And yet, with courage and repetition a role that initially felt scary is probably second nature for you now.
Courage is the essential energy that helps us expand beyond our comfort zone and develop confidence in new areas. Because OF COURSE fear will come up when we take a step into the unknown (fear is designed to keep us safe, so it’s just doing its job!).
It’s 100% normal a part of us will want to give up before risking failure/ judgment/ criticism/ embarrassment/ pain/ discomfort.
Cue courage, ready to give us the strength we need to take that brave step (instead of running away while making excuses and contracting in fear).
Often clients believe that confidence implies the absence of fear and yet I find as long as we’re human and willing to grow - fear will be a teammate.
So instead of fearing fear or allowing fear to define what we are able to do/not do, we can lean into courage by remembering why it’s important to us to develop that confidence and ultimately claim our freedom.
The good news is that, just like a muscle, we get better and stronger with practice.
What if instead of impatiently wanting to be 100% confident, we focused on being courageous and practicing, moment to moment?