A Mindset Shift To Boost Your Confidence

Today I'm going to share the simple mindset shift you can use to boost your confidence. Welcome to the Dean Graziosi show. All success starts right here. I'm so excited you're here today. Whether you're watching me on video or you're listening to me, confidence is so important to everything we do in our life. It's absolutely crucial. Have you ever done anything in your life effectively, positively, with any influence, with impact, when your confidence is down? Most likely the answer is not. I've asked thousands and thousands and thousands of people that question live, and no one ever raises their hand. But here's the thing I want you to share, to think about is that our confidence isn't 0 to 100. Think your confidence is like 1 to 100. But if your confidence is at 95%, my gut is that you hesitate. You play small, you overthink, you overanalyze. You want too many of the details, and then all of a sudden the opportunity's gone and you missed it, and another missed opportunity gets chalked on the board, and another year like last year becomes inevitable. So how do we keep our confidence at peak, or how do we have the ability to call upon confidence when we need it? That's one of the most important things that I want to share with you today is how do you call upon confidence? Well, before you do it, I want to create the mindset shift in your head that changes the way you think about confidence. I think a lot of people think we're born with confidence, but more, we're like a factory. We create it. A factory can create energy. Energy doesn't exist. My buddy Brendan Bouchard says that all the time, and I love when he says that a factory creates energy. It's the same with our bodies. We don't have energy. And the same thing with confidence. We don't just have confidence, we create confidence. So let's go upstream. Let's talk about a few things that can get your confidence up on a regular basis. One is play offense throughout the day rather than defense. A lot of times, and this is just a framework that you could put in your head. A lot of times we go through the day waiting to put out fires. We instead of bulldozing and cleaning the brush so a fire never comes up, we're putting out the fires. We're waiting for the bad email, waiting for the bad phone call, waiting for the customer to be upset, waiting for the coworkers, the boss, not to be happy. And we are there to serve, to put out that Fire. How far in life can you go by simply just putting out fires? You need to work on the offensive side of your life. Your business, your next level, your bigger income. So I would love for you to think about setting your day up for offense, which means setting your day up for confidence. How do you do that? Well, first off is watch the influences you allow into your thoughts. Let's just take the person that's skeptical in your life or negative or tells you that you're a dreamer for watching a podcast like this or listening to a podcast like this, or wanting to start your own business, that this isn't the right time, that you're not the right person, you don't have the right money, you don't live in the right area. How does that influence? Even if you're really good at not listening to the wrong people? But what if that sticks? Just 5%? Or your parents saying, do this. This is the best path, even though they didn't live the life they wished they had, Right? So if you take in these outside influences from the wrong people, I assure you, they accumulate. I assure you, even if just a little bit at a time, till finally you go, maybe I shouldn't start my own business. Maybe this isn't the right time. Maybe that invention won't work. Maybe Facebook is overcrowded. Maybe real estate doesn't work and all of a sudden you go back and you play small because you let someone else talk you out of your dreams, which lowered your confidence, which got you playing defense. Bam. Stuck in a never ending cycle of just hoping and wishing. Okay, that's the first thing. The second thing, what other outside influences can knock your confidence down? For me, I don't like watching the news. I, I talk about this a lot. If you read my book, you know, I talk about going on a news diet. For me, watching the negative news only makes me feel insecure. I haven't watched news on a regular basis probably in 15 years. Obsessively in 10, hardly at all. In five. I mean, sometimes someone will turn the news on and I'll watch three minutes and I'll feel poisoned. I'm like, I gotta shut it off. Now. You might say that's naive. You should know what's going on around the world. I don't, I don't care. Because what I want to do, I don't know about you, this is your opinion, but I know people that read the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, or the Daily News or their local paper or what, like, cover to cover, watch the News every time at 5. When's the last time you watched the news at 5 and felt so motivated you wanted to go journal, start something new, change your life? Or said to someone, hey, if you missed the 5 o' clock news, you should catch it at 7? It was so inspiring. No, you watch the news, you feel crippled. So for me, I want that time back. I want that confidence back. I'm not letting someone rob that confidence. So I'm going to go after it. So how do I do that? I just don't watch it. And for me, I want to feed my mind with self education, watching and listening to podcasts just like this. I do the same thing you do. I want to fill my mind with the things where I can change the news in my family, in my house, change the economy in my house. If I change the economy in my house, I hire more people, I help expand, and I'm doing my thing to impact the world. What about you? What are you letting derail you? What are you letting lower your confidence? The other thing that kills us is bad advice. Who is giving you advice that's unqualified? Your broke friend telling you how to make money or what not to do. Your single friend telling you how to fix your relationship. You're not seeing the whole effect of what this does to you. It lowers your confidence from 100 to even 95%. And you're going to play small for the rest of your life and not even know why. Protect your confidence with your life. The confidence is the number one asset. I believe with all of me that an entrepreneur or someone striving for another level of life needs now. Here's the last thing I want to take. Now, that's how you went upstream and kind of protected. So it's, it's not being squashed and beat up all the time. But how do you do a mindset shift to change your confidence? This is where I want you to think of how to get confidence in a moment, how to change your state of mind, how to feel and live and be that confident person. Whether you're selling, closing the deal, walking in the conference room, walking on stage, closing the deal, getting the partner, fixing their relationship. It works on everything. I want you to borrow confidence from the past. You see, when we're doing something where we have to muster up the confidence, we think of the things that could go wrong. We think of, well, what if I don't come through? What if I don't say the right things? I need to rehearse this over and over. What if. What if. What if. What if we change that? And instead of thinking about what could go wrong, of course we know this. Start thinking about what can go right. But better yet. Rob Confidence from the Past Go look in your past at times when you weren't sure if you'd go through, but you made it happen. When you thought you wanted the girl and you got the girl or you got the guy, you got the job, you got the deal, you got the money, you got the sale, you scored the touchdown, you got the run, you were good at band, you were the star of the play. Rob Confidence from the past. Remind your body, remind yourselves, remind your subconscious what it felt like and bring it into the present time. I'm telling you, you can transcend that old confidence and into your current state and watch your state of mind change just like that. If you liked this podcast, make sure you rate it and also make sure to click subscribe so you never miss out. You can always follow us on Instagram and if you don't already have millionaire success habits, you can grab it for free@deansfreebook.com Remember, all success starts here.