The Art of Believing in Yourself | Powerful Motivational Speeches
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What is the importance of believing in yourself?
That morning, as I looked out the window, I could feel my increased heart rate. A sense of both excitement and anxiety that you can only really understand if you've lived it. I was worried about what people might think. what I might lose, what life might have in store for me. Because that was all I knew to focus on. I'd programmed myself to do one thing, worry. And when your one thing is worrying, it's inevitable that you see life through a lens of scarcity. Your setting is on maintain, meaning you protect the little you have as opposed to seeking more. You play defense to keep the world out as opposed to the offense required to bring the world in so that it may be reshaped. That morning, cold, wet,
How can fear and courage coexist?
gray i was numb but deep down completely oblivious to me there was a little fire burning too small to recognize a spark of courage in its infancy see at that moment if someone asked me Can you even be scared and courageous at the same time? I would have said those two words do not go together, right? We're talking night and day, fire and water, black and white. But time's job is to reveal. And it has shown that there is no courage without fear. There is no fire, no matter how bright or powerful, that doesn't by default bring about those mysterious shapes dancing in the shadows. If you want fire, great. But you must learn to dance with what hides in the periphery. You must learn to go where your impulse begs you not to. And so that morning, I went to dance with my demons.
What if the one thing holding you back in your life was you? And look, I know the world is a complex, multivariable, unfair, sometimes even cryptic place. I've never said anything to the contrary. But what humans do so well, sometimes for good and sometimes to our detriment, is see life through stories, ideas. And whether you know it or not, you are playing by a set of rules. Right now, as you take this in, you have defined a set of parameters and deemed them acceptable, decided they are what you deserve. You've allowed for yourself a certain level of growth, a certain amount of happiness, a certain amount of time to do what you love. a certain expectation around the role of work in your life, a certain window of income you've identified as reasonable.
What stories are you telling yourself about your limitations?
Overall, a certain feeling you get when you look in the mirror. And my objective is not to tell you that any of the above is good or bad. It's to remind you that they are all stories. Our current state is is not etched in stone, it's clumsily drawn on a dry erase board. Clumsily because how could we know everything, right? We learn along the way in a dry erase board because there's never a moment in time in which you cannot begin again. Think about that. Never. Never. Good, bad, or in between, there is never a situation from which you can't emerge as something different, from which you can't choose to take a different path, change the narrative around you, your relationships, your job, your goals.
But like the elephant tied to the chair with the rope, one must learn that it is not the chair holding them back, but their perception, their understanding of a supposed role in life. So as I drove away that morning, I wasn't leaving a physical place, but a mental constraint. Turning my back on a manufactured idea about who I was and what life would allow. Not in a snap. No, not all at once. But an adventure that would begin pulling back the curtains one by one on all that I'd walked right by. See, the first step to getting more is understanding you've been accepting less. That is where new roads present themselves, and it is that new road that I want for you. That understanding that so much will be given to those with the courage to ask.
So as you stand now, examine what you've been asking of life. My hunch is that perhaps it's not enough. Perhaps there's more. Perhaps a new chapter is waiting to begin and right now is when that first page gets turned. Joseph Campbell says that the cave you fear holds the treasure you seek. Why? Because to face the dancing shadows is to gain power over them.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the importance of believing in yourself?
0:00–1:29
2
How can fear and courage coexist?
1:29–4:18
3
What stories are you telling yourself about your limitations?
4:18–7:46
4
How can you redefine your boundaries?
7:46–18:15
5
What happens when you focus on your strengths?
18:15–22:36
6
How do you overcome the fear of failure?
22:36–30:43
7
What steps can you take to achieve your dreams?
30:43–34:02
8
What is holding you back from taking the first step?
34:02–58:18
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