3 Secrets To Unstoppable Confidence in Business and Life - Millionaire Success Habits
10 Sept 2018 · 9 min
Dean Graziosi argues confidence is the foundation for success. He identifies five confidence killers: news consumption, negative people, bad advice, focusing on weaknesses, and phone interruptions. His fixes: go on a news diet, set boundaries with draining people, play to your strengths, and replace wasted time with reading.
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When your confidence is down, do you go after the business? Do you ask for the money? Do you start the website? Do you get the girl? Do you get the promotion? Do you ask your boss for a raise? Know when your confidence is down, you. That's when you start saying, well, maybe this is good enough. With all the opportunities that exist today, why haven't you reached your next level of income, life, and wealth? In most cases, we've been lied to. We've been told that if you find the right opportunity and you work hard, you can be successful. And that's simply not true. True. Millionaires, billionaires, and successful people have realized you need the foundation for wealth, the habits. And that's exactly what you'll be learning on the Millionaire Success Habits podcast. All success starts here. What's up? What's up? Welcome to the Millionaire Success Habits podcast. If this is your first time listening, it's an honor and a privilege to have you here. I plan to get you addicted in this very first one you listen to if you're coming back week after week. Thanks for. Thanks for being here with me. I promise to always dig in as deep as I can to deliver you value wisdom capabilities so you can go faster, quicker, and easier to your next level of life. Today I want to talk about confidence. I could talk about confidence literally once a week because it's so important to your next level of success. If you're watching this video, excuse me, I just left the gym. I'm sweaty, I'm freaking, my face is red, didn't shave today, but I don't care. I got a message. I was literally running on the Stairmaster, walking on the Stairmaster, sweating, thinking about you guys and thinking about the impact of confidence in your life. I just did an event this weekend in San Diego, was amazing group of people, and I went deep on confidence. I watched people get it. You see, if you are listening to this podcast, you're listening to other podcasts that motivate you, give you capabilities to go faster, quicker, make more money, have more freedom, control in your life, all those types of things, but none of it. Listen to me. Listen to this clearly, maybe for the first time in your life, really hear me. None of it is possible if your confidence is down. So I want you to think about the things in your life that steal your confidence. And remember, when I say steal your confidence, I don't mean that you have 100% of confidence and you do something and you go to 20% or 10%. I'm talking about when your confidence is off just 5%. Do you make smart decisions when your confidence is down? Do you go after the business? Do you ask for the money? Do you start the website? Do you get the girl? Do you get the promotion? Do you ask your boss for a raise knowing your confidence is down? You. That's when you start saying, well, maybe this is good enough. Maybe my relationship is good enough. I should just be happy with what I got. I should just be happy with the money I make. Screw that. If you were happy, you wouldn't be here. You'd be doing something else right now besides listening or watching me. So let's just face the facts. Where you are right now is not sufficient for you. Doesn't mean it's horrible, but it's not enough. And if you want to get to that next level, you need to protect your confidence by any shape, measure, or form. Protect it. So what are the things that ding your confidence? I realized at an early, early time, it's probably been 10 years that watching the news. For me, when I watch the news and I see that it looks like the world is going to hell in a handbasket, or what the President is saying today, or what Congress is saying, or you listen to the left or the right or people in the middle, if you listen to all the gun violence, like all the news does for me is make me question where the world is going in my next level. So for 10 years now, I've been on a news diet. I don't watch the news. I have no clue what's going on, nor do I care. It was the biggest transformation in my life where I want to spend my time. I want to spend time with my family, the people I love, my kids, my team members. They deserve the best of me. They don't deserve dean at 95% confidence. They deserve 100%. And if I watch the news, it brings it down. So I won't be the best team leader. I. I won't be the best father. I won't be the best man I can be. I won't be the best inspiration for you. So screw the news. It dings my confidence. It's out. I've been on a news diet. I challenge you to do the same thing for me. I don't know about you, but if you have your phone, I'm recording on my phone here. I'm stopped now. I can talk to you, but I don't know. This is my wallet. But if you ever look at your phone, if it dings, someone texts you or calls you and you look at it and you go, oh, should I answer this now? Should I answer it later? To me, that robs my confidence. I don't want those people in my life. I either have to set boundaries or I have to push them out of my life. Listen, let's just be honest. Stop feeling bad for other people. Stop dimming your glow. Stop talking about your aspirational next level. Stop fantasizing about your dreams in front of people because it may insult them or make them feel inferior, or they may tell you you're a dreamer. If that's the case, push them out of your life. Or become Teflon and don't listen to their shit. And plain speaking, if someone gives you advice if you wouldn't replace your life with theirs, they give you advice on how to make money, how to fix your relationship, how to get a promotion. But most of the time, people are unqualified giving us advice. The broke friend telling us how to make money, the unhappy, miserable, single friend telling us how to fix our marriage. Bad advice is the most costly advice in the world. But I take it one step deeper. You've heard that before. But bad advice to me dings my confidence. It's got to go. So if bad advice dings your confidence, then get the. Push the people out that are bringing you down and making you dim your glow. Push them out of your life. Or if they're really close in your life, find a way to not let their words affect you unless you'd rather be them. Another thing that dings your confidence in a massive way is working on your weaknesses. The biggest lie we've ever been told in the history of the world, or one of them, is that we should get strong at what we're weak at. The hell with that shit. Get amazing at what you're good at. Because when you work on the things you're good at, the things that make you thrive and feel alive, your confidence goes up. When your confidence goes up, then everything else starts to get easier. You don't look at things as a problem. You look at things as a challenge. When you walk into the meeting to ask for the promotion, ask for the raise, ask for the partnership, you don't go, oh, my God, will this work? Maybe I should be happy. You go, no, I got this. I got this. Your chest puffs up, your physiology changes, your breathing changes, the way you look on your face changes. Do you ever take a picture when you're stressed and your confidence is low? It's like, yeah, hi. And then all of a sudden, you look at Another picture, like, wow, I looked amazing in that picture. Why did I look so good? Because your confidence was up. So right now, this is your call to action. And by the way, if you haven't yet, go to subscribetodeen.com subscribe to dean.com so you can follow me. Get notifications, get free free bonuses, get discounts, all kinds of cool stuff. And that's why these podcasts are growing so fast, because of all of you registering. But this week what I want you to do is I would like you to start making a list. Yeah, I'm giving you an assignment. Don't stop just listening to podcasts and start doing listen. I failed miserably in my life, but I've had massive success. I'm sharing this with you today so you can avoid the potholes, so you can avoid the pitfalls, so you could go faster to your next level. Why go through your own trial and error when I've been here? So do this exercise. Don't just think about it. Don't just be inspired. Do it this week. Start writing down everything in your life that makes you feel a little bit less than confident. Someone in your life, a relationship, watching the news, working on your weaknesses, redundant work, negative people, whatever it is, start recognizing it and start eliminating those things in your life. Start figuring out how you could push them out or become Teflon or switch it or adjust it, or go on a one week news diet. Just go this week without watching one bit of news and use that time that you'd watch the news or surf online looking at stupid crap that doesn't do anything for your life. Use that time working on you. Read a book. Read powerful by Peggy McCall. Read Shoe Dog by Phil Knight. Read Principles by Ray Dalio. Read something that takes you forward and eliminate the crap that holds you back. That's my message for today. I appreciate you guys. Again, if you're watching the video, sorry I look like a mess. I just got done working out. But I had this message. You could tell I. I'm passionate about today. It's in my heart and I need to just share it with you. 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