Increase Confidence (Despite Uncertainty)

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I'm Brendon Burchard, host of the Brendon show and founder of growthday.com and I'm honored to be your high performance coach today. I believe that every day we can be inspired. We can live with intention and purpose. We can bring the joy and honor the struggles of each day to push ourselves to grow, to serve, to be a role model, to lead extraordinary lives. I believe that every day is a great day to grow. That's why I started my company, growthday.com it's an online personal growth platform where you can get me and the world's best personal development teachers live coaching you every week. Sharing our wisdom, keeping you motivated and accountable, encouraging you to find the aliveness and the connection and meaning of life that we're all after. If you're not a member yet, please go sign up@growthday.com and join our huge worldwide community of achievers. For less than a dollar a day you get the world's best teachers live every week. And look, you've probably known for a long time that you needed some expert guidance and inspired community and life changing tools. So please, your breakthrough awaits you@growthday.com now let's get to today's episode. My friends, please listen closely. Maybe you take some notes so you remember these insights of personal growth and share this episode with three of your.

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Now let's begin. Clarity. How do you develop more clarity and how important this is for everything we know in high performance and everything we know about confidence? Here's what happens. Human beings are a goal directed species. If we don't have clarity on what we want, if we don't have clarity on who we are, if we don't have clarity on what our intentions are in social relationships, it's unnerving to us. Who's ever felt lost in life? Ever felt lost in life? Well, if you ever felt lost in life, you know that feeling. It's coming from a lack, a often of clarity. We'll talk about this. You just don't know who you are, what you're about, what you want anymore. And it's unsettling when you lack clarity. It's really unsettling. You're like, ah, I don't know what I'm about anymore. And this is where midlife crises come in. This is where the difficulties when you get laid off come in because you don't know what you're supposed to do that month anymore, or when you retire from the thing and now you don't know what to do with yourself or the kids leave the house, and your role just changed from parent to freedom. Something shifted in you, and you don't know what to do with this new world anymore. Well, guess what's happening in the world right now. At a macro level, the world's in such shifting times that it can feel very uncertain for us. And that lack of clarity of how things are going to turn out can really be unnerving. A lot of your insecurities come from a lack of clarity. A lack of clarity. When we study the most productive people in the world, what we call high performers, their first practice is to seek clarity. They're always asking what's important to me here? What's the best next right action of integrity? What do I really want? What would feel fulfilling here? They're asking more questions, so they're getting more clarity now. What's important about clarity and high performance is clarity is something that is like knowledge or a goal or an aim, but it's loosely held. What I mean by that is like, okay, that's important to me, but I can be flexible and adaptive as well. It's not this idea that you have total 100% complete certainty and you're total certain all the time. Ah, it's like, that is a adolescent dream. There is no absolute certainty in anything in life. Right. And so we have to go, oh, okay, I can have clear direction or I can be strongly committed to this thing, but lots of people who are absolutely certain about something shifts months later. On a scale of 1 to 10 in the last 60 days, how clear have you been about what you wanted in life? How clear have you been about how you wanted to show up each day? How clear have you been about what you wanted and how you wanted to show up? Did you start the day with some clarity about how you wanted to live that day, show up that day, treat other people that day, serve that day? And it's so simple. I hear it literally tens of thousands of times a month from people who use a high performance planner worldwide. They're just like, oh, my God, I started doing this. I did it for 10 days in a row. I've never felt so good. And it's not like you know, the paper smells a certain way, that makes them feel good. That would be a good product idea. No, instead, what happens is they go, oh, I've really been starting the morning asking myself the tough questions of the day, which prepares me for the day. Clarity. So let's think about where sometimes you feel insecure. You're out in the world, you're gonna go to that networking function or that party and you're gonna bring your mask. But I'm just saying, okay, let's pretend. Of a different time and era. You're gonna go to that party or that networking function. You feel insecure about yourself. Why? Because in your mind, the insecurity in that moment, in that situation of the networking situation or the party is coming from. I don't know who I am in here. I don't know these people and who I'm supposed to be with them. I don't know where to go or. Or who to talk to. And so just. It's unnerving. The insecurity is, I don't know what to do in this situation. Now, that type of confidence or lack thereof is something that psychologists call self efficacy. Self efficacy is about, I don't know what to do in this situation. That's where the insecurity comes from. Positive self efficacy means I believe that I know what to do in this situation. I can handle this, even if I don't know how yet. I believe I can handle this. I have the competence to take this on as an example. That's positive. But a lot of things in life you don't know how to deal with. You don't have self efficacy because you don't know how to handle it yet. This is a new party. You don't know anybody in it. It's a new networking event. You've never met any of these people. How do you get more confidence in that? Well, one simple thing you can do is start with clarity. Okay, I'm going to go talk to people. What's something I'd love to share about myself with every new person I meet? What's something I'd love to share about myself with every new person I meet? What's something I'd love to share about myself with every new person I meet? Oh, okay. Lock that in. Okay, got it. What's one question I could ask every new person I meet? What's one question I could ask every new person I meet? Okay, let me lock that in. Okay, just those two things have been found to dramatically increase people's sense of confidence in social situations. I know what I'm gonna share about myself. I have clarity on it. I know what I'm gonna ask them. I've clarity, just those two simple things. We're not even yet talking about your childhood dilemmas yet. 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And you will feel the difference. Go to HPX wellness.com right now HPX wellness.com the problem with clarity is it's double edged sword. You might have a lot of clarity of beliefs about why you're not a good person. A lot of people, their clarity is I'm awful, I'm worthless, I'm no good. And they've stacked up all these experiences to strengthen that belief and their clarity is, well, I'm a jerk, I'm no good, I'm used goods, I'm bad, no one loves me, no one ever will. I don't deserve success, I won't have success. They've locked in. They've locked in. They have certainty and clarity around a negative identity and outcome for themselves. A negative identity, who I am and outcome, how things are going to turn out. In other words, they view themselves and their future negatively, pessimistically or harshly, negativity, pessimistically or harshly. And so they've got clarity, but they got the wrong kind of clarity. See, confidence requires positive clarity, not negative, self defeating clarity. I know some people, they sure know who they are and they hate themselves. They're certain about it. You're like, oh, that's not the clarity we're looking for here. So clarity is a double edged sword. If you believe the wrong thing about yourself, that's going to hurt you too. So what's the opposite of that? Well, I'm going to start viewing myself positively. How can we do that? Well, you know what? Maybe each day for the next 10 days I'm going to write down a strength that I have every day. I'm going to start by writing down something good about myself literally for the next 10 days. And if you think this is just fluff out there, this is positive psychology, write down 10 positive things about yourself every day for the next 10 days. Watch what happens for you. It starts shifting your perception of yourself. If we can shift your perception of yourself. Because see, your perception of yourself, your clarity of self was established by other people. Unless you've done personal development work. Most people unconsciously gobbled up everybody else's opinion about themselves and they're not actually an authentic being because they haven't done the self reflection, the personal development. So what they are is a collection of everybody else's opinions and desires. They're not a free, autonomous, self chosen human yet. And it's not. And by the way, I was that too. So if you ever think I'm judging anybody or speaking negatively of the world, you got to understand I still do the work, I still came from that. So I'm just sharing. That's what happens, right? When we're young and dumb, we wander around and we just. Okay, if your mom tells you you're a terrible person, you believe it. If your teacher says you're never going to make it, you believe it. And what has happened is if you feel terrible about yourself, I would love.

For you to journey within and ask.

Whose opinion shaped that feeling? Write this down. Whose opinion shaped that feeling? Whose opinion is fueling this feeling? If you feel so Bad about yourself? Who told you to feel that way? Who gave you those labels? Who issued those judgments? And why did you so readily take them? Because you know what? Whatever you accepted in high school is completely irrelevant today. Unless in your mind you want to.

Ruminate and recreate high school.

Every day is a new day. Every day is a blank page. Every day you can start reshaping yourself. Every day you can start reshaping your identity, recrafting your dreams, changing up your mindset, learning new things. Every day is a great day to grow. You will be so tired of me saying that. But this is important because if your clarity leads you to feeling bad about, if you are so confident that you're a jerk or you are so confident that you're incapable, this is not the kind of confidence we want. We want positive confidence, life affirming confidence, self affirming confidence. The kind that says, I know my worth, I believe in my ability, figuring things out. I believe in my future. And you deserve that. And so do your kids, so do your loved ones, so does your team. But guess what? For those of you who are struggling with your team and your team feels disorganized or disengaged, guess what, they might just be lacking some of this clarity. How can your team confidently execute if they lack the clarity? If they don't know what is going on right now, if they don't know what's coming up right now, it's not easy when you have lots of people or teams or people you serve. I have that same challenge in my business with my team. I wish I could talk to all my people an hour or five a day. It's not going to happen, right? So you have to do things when you're around to make people clear about what to work on, what to focus on, who's working on that, and this, it's super hard. But with more clarity comes more confidence. With more clarity comes more confidence. So I love you. Do something simple for yourself. Where in your life do you not feel that you have clarity yet? Because sometimes that might be as simple as, you know, I want to launch this new book, but I don't know how to write a book. Or it might be, you know, I want to make more money on the Internet, but I don't know how to do the Internets. It might be, oh, you know what, I want a raise, but I don't know how to ask for one. It might be, oh, you know, I sure like to achieve this pivot, but I don't know which direction to go. In that's just clarity. And so what you need to do is spend time both learning but most important, here's the important. Please listen to me. You must always make sure that you switch gears from learning to deciding quickly. A lot of people, they have clarity on too much. They're overwhelmed with all the things they could do. Anyone overwhelmed out there. A lot of overwhelm comes from over consumption and too little decision. A lot of overwhelm comes from too much consumption and too little decision. We got to move. We got to decide. We got to go. Okay. Clarity is strengthened with real decisions. We got to strengthen our clarity with decisions. Many people have clarity of knowledge, but they haven't decided anything yet. Clarity when it's locked in as a decision, as a pattern, as a discipline, as a commitment. Woo. That feels good. That feels good. That's the kind of clarity that we're talking about here today. That kind of clarity that. Write this down. The kind of clarity that is decisive and consistent. The kind of clarity that is decisive and consistent. That's what builds the confidence, the decisive and consistent clarity.

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And I read all of them. So my last thought for today, please remember, you are stronger than you think and the future holds good things for you. Tomorrow can be an inspired day. Every new morning is a second chance. Every day is a great day to grow. We're thankful to have you here in the growth day community. So be sure to go deeper with us@growthday.com.

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