A short motivational monologue by Dr. Aziz offering a mindset-based method to increase confidence in high-pressure situations (job interviews, dates, etc.). He teaches reframing anxious narratives into empowering stories — e.g., telling yourself “I’ll be okay and something better is in store” — coupled with embodied breathwork to access a confident state.
You want to know one secret? To take it even further beyond I'll be okay too is I'll be okay and there's something even better in store for me. If not this is something better. Now, of course your doubtful mind is going to say, no, nothing. Remember, no one other than this person. Or else death and ruin. Well, you get to choose what you believe and what story you tell yourself repeatedly. And so you can say, you know what? That story sucks. That story stresses me out. That story makes me anxious and makes me less likely to achieve what I really want. So I'm going to tell myself a new story. And that new story is, you know what? I'm going to give it my all. If it goes a different direction, sure, I'll feel sad or I'll feel disappointed at the time, I'll feel frustrated. Yes. And I'll be okay. And I'll remind myself all through it that it's this or something better. So if this isn't the thing I'm meant to get, I'm going to find something better. I'm going to create something better. Because why? Because life is steering me. Life is guiding me. I am held, I am loved. I am guided. And you breathe in and you feel that. And now you are in contact with the most powerful version of you, the most confident version of you, who's going to crush it in that high pressure situation.
