Rob Dial

You need to take action to give yourself a chance to grow more confident.

If you're sitting around thinking that you need to be confident to take action, you're gonna be sitting forever.

You can't meditate yourself into being more confident.

You can't think yourself into being more confident.

Confidence, a lot of times, comes from results.

It comes from doing something

a lot of times something that you didn't want to do, and seeing results.

And not always seeing good results, sometimes going and doing something and failing anyways.

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?