Dean Graziosi breaks confidence into three parts: tapping your internal energy through changing your physical state, building daily routines like workouts and gratitude, and practicing courage through repeated small commitments. He uses his son as an example of how energy shifts instantly when you change how you're standing or breathing.
Where's your energy right now? Energy doesn't come from a cup of coffee. Energy doesn't come from food. Energy comes within. You know, how many times have you been doing something you didn't like? And then someone says, hey, do you want to go? Do I watch this with kids, right? My son can be like, ah, dad, I'm bored. I'm a little tired. I'm like, you want to go outside and play basketball? Heck yeah. Let's go do it. Let's play horse. I'm going to beat you. Immediately, his energy went through the roof. I didn't feed him anything. I didn't give him any coffee. I didn't give him a spot pillar, a Red Bull. I just changed what was up. And his energy immediately changed. Guess what? That energy lives in us. It's always there. We just have to tap into it. And what I'd say, just start practicing tapping into that energy. Just like be doing something in your house or at work and just say, right now I'm going to crank up the energy and you can think about what you're cool like, you think about your state, change your physiology, change your words. Do what it takes to, like, snap into a different place and watch the confidence go up. Watch it go up immediately and watch your energy go up again. I do it as like, little tricks to myself. I'll find myself low in energy. I'm like, create something right now. Just make it. And the more you do it, the more you train yourself. It's like going to a gym, right? You know, go to a gym once and work out and come out ripped. You got to go to the gym all the time. Where in your life can more confidence take you to another level? Where and more can more confidence give you a breakthrough? If that's the case, then you need to watch this again. And you need to go through these exercises and you need to find that confidence to just go for it, to just do it. It is better to try and fail than to sit on the sidelines. Sitting on the sidelines. You know, when you talk to older people, you watch, you read all these articles and magazines. When you talk to somebody older in their life, they're always regretting the things they didn't take action on. Lack of confidence will keep you right where you are. Routines help build confidence, right? So there's a million things I could talk about when it comes to confidence. How you have to be courageous. That means taking action. Courageous is just doing. It's jumping out of the plane and hoping the chute Opens right. You need to be courageous, then you need to gain the capabilities. Right. You need to learn from people playing at a higher level. You're here, you're learning the right stuff, then you got to be committed. Nothing works without commitment. I mean, diets don't work, relationships don't work. You got to commit. So when you have the courage, the capabilities and the commitment, that's when confidence ends up showing up. The four C's. I go deep on that in my book. But what also helps that is a little hack is routines. You want to know the best way for me to kill my confidence in a day is to wake up and roll over and check my email. Yes. I have so many businesses going on, one of those emails is not going to be great. So if I want to ruin my confidence for a day, I roll over and I'll check my email and I'll go, oh man, I got to deal with that today. Okay. I'll be alright. I know I talk myself out of it. You want to know how I can definitively know I'll have more confidence in a day is I put my phone on airplane mode and I don't touch it. I don't look at it until I go workout. Until I think of some things I'm grateful for. Until I green drink my green drink with some oils in it if I do those things and then I practice a little gratitude. I set my day up for just confidence. So sometimes routines can be your hack to be fine again. Use anything in your power to find a way to gain confidence. Hacks are fine as long as you're doing it. You guys have headspace. I used it this morning. Go grab the app Headspace. I'm not the best at meditating. There's a lot of different meditations. There's a good video. My buddy Brendon Burchard. If you go to YouTube and Google Brendon Burchard meditation, he's got a great video. The release technique. It's about just saying the word release over and over. And what I love about it is he kind of walks you through it and then plays this killer music. And I think he got that music from Jack Canfield somebody. It's great music. It's a perfect state. So you do that or try headspace at just a 10 minute meditation each day kind of walks you through. And I think the app's free unless you want to upgrade and it's like seven bucks a month. So it's been really cool. Meditation. Meditation seems hard. I know it does Because I've been. Meditation and yoga have been on my list of making it part of my life for, like, years, and it's still not. I do yoga maybe once a month. I meditate probably once or twice a week. I'd love to be that person that meditates every day, but. But things like headspace, things like Brendan's meditation that you could see on YouTube, those things if we slowly do it, you could see if you're not person that meditates. When you meditate, you get these glimpses like, I'm too busy. My frontal lobe is just burning up. All these thoughts, and then all of a sudden, once in a while, a new one will come into place. And once in a while, you'll have this moment where there's nothing there. And it could be 30 seconds, it could be two minutes, could be five minutes, could be five seconds. And when you do, you see, see what meditation is all about. Your body goes into your subconscious. Your frontal lobe doesn't have all this crazy stuff going on. There's just this peace. And if I meditate for 10, 15 minutes, and I have two minutes, three minutes that are like that, I'm rejuvenated. I feel like a completely different person. It's crazy. And same with yoga, Sam.
