This is a great way to look at it... 👍

If you want to build your confidence, here's something people learn in therapy that can be life changing. Now, everyone has a comfort zone, right? Those situations that feel easy and safe. And everyone thinks that everything outside of that comfort zone is overwhelming and frightening. Let's call that the panic zone. What if I told you that there's a third zone, the stretch zone. Now, these are all the things that feel like a challenge, but doable with some effort. And when you spend time in that stretch zone, you start doing all those small things that challenge you. What happens is the comfort zone starts to expand so you can build your confidence without ever having to step into your panic zone. You don't have to overwhelm yourself, but you do have to challenge yourself every day in that stretch zone, over and over again. It takes courage, but the more time you spend there, the more confident you become.