Rob Dial

It also comes from another thing which I'll talk about a little bit later, but it comes from doing something

and getting some form of a result.

Maybe you go and you do this thing that you're afraid of doing and you have amazing results.

Maybe you go and you do this thing that you're afraid of doing, but the confidence comes from seeing yourself show up and take the action that you needed to regardless of how you felt about it.

Seeing your fear and pushing past your fear anyways and realizing, hey, my fear doesn't control me.

It's this idea, this skillset of becoming good at following through, doing what you say you're going to do.

A person that I coached with years ago used to always say, I'm trying to make my do to say ratio one.

which means when I say I'm gonna do something, I do it every single time, 100%.

So I'm working on my do to say ratio, doing what you say you're going to do, getting better at prioritizing yourself, not because you're selfish, but because your future self is going to come in contact with you at some point in time.

Your future self exists in the future.

Is your future self going to be proud of you for the actions that you're taking today?

Or are they going to think, man, I wish I would have done something different?

Each time you follow through, you reinforce self-trust.

And self-trust is the foundation that confidence has to rely on.

You have to have some form of self-trust.

And most people don't have self-trust.

And the reason why is because think of how many times you've said you're going to do something and you didn't do it.

You know, maybe you'll show up for other people more than you'll show up for yourself.

You can't be that way.

There's one person who's always watching you every single second of your life, and it's you.