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Leadership and Performance Development

Ep. 15: Confidence Part 2

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In the latest YL episode (Confidence Part 2), I discuss how to embrace your weirdness & that of others that leads to healthy confidence.

Weird is Good

  • Embrace our weirdness.
  • Take inventory of what we do that is unique.
    • Be detailed
    • Weird should not get labeled personally as a stigma, but a strength.
  • Weird usually brings new ideas and creativity to the world.
  • Things that remain the same or fit the mold don’t move the world forward.
  • A band you like that eventually everyone falls for.

Those that shame “weird” actions, often times lack confidence and creativity

  • They don’t want change and have significant interest in things remaining the same.
  • How the world currently works for them.
  • They may be threatened by change

To Embrace the Weird, We Must Build Our Confidence

  • It increases as a result of our experiences.
  • Stepping into the void and practicing
  • Achieving mini wins & milestones
  • Progress is progress

Those that have joy & those who struggle to find it

The Joy-us

  • The Joyus find the process to be life giving
  • They reflect back on the journey
  • They are grateful for each experience
  • They feel as if they have lived and are grateful for it
  • Hardship is part of it (I’m Still Standing by Elton John)
  • This approach helps confidence to row and manifest
  • They know that the hard times are part of the overall equation that ultimately creaes the next better version of them.
  • Lean into courage. I will go. I will move forward. Send me mentality

The Strugglers 

  • Those who struggle to find joy only concentrate on the end product.
  • Good will only come if I am able to complete it.
  • The process is viewed as a struggle and their is a narrow view of its actual harvest 
  • True healthy confidence is hard to obtain with this state of mind
  • Hard to establish consistency because the confidence is always being undermined by the hardships.

Can You Be Both?

  • Some aspects of my life I’m in the Joy-us state of mind. Some areas I struggle
  • It is a battle between the light and darkness.
  • I fight for the light. I fight for life.

Lean into the Joy-us and establish internal and external triggers that return you to it when struggling.

The Joy-us Athlete

  • What does it look like to be a joyus athlete?
    • Find a role an embrace it
      • Stop comparing your role to those that are further down the road than you.
      • Small seat at the table

Confidence is not knowing you have the ability to do something, but know you will try to do it.

Rob Bell

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Before listening to Confidence Part 2, be sure to listen to Confidence Part 1 to set the stage for understanding.

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