How to build self-confidence starting right now

One of my idols growing up was Michael Jordan, a man full of self-confidence. He said, “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

Indeed.

If we don’t expect ourselves to stay consistent with our diet and exercise then we won’t.

Expecting things of ourselves comes from self confidence.

And I believe the best way to gain self confidence is to actually do the things we really want to do.

You know, all of those little promises we make to ourselves. When we make good on our own word, it feels awesome. We start to believe in ourselves. We start to really trust ourselves.

We all know the feeling of having been lied to by ourselves is not a good one. We start thinking we’re a fraud. And that our own word means nothing. We don’t trust ourselves anymore. We don’t take ourselves seriously anymore.

Some people will promise everything to other people and never break their word...

Some of those people will never keep their own promises though.

Here’s a thought:

Imagine if you kept every promise you made to yourself. Imagine how you’d feel? Imagine how you'd look?

It would feel pretty empowering right?

Easier said than done, of course.

This is like saying, "Just eat less and move more!"

Duh.

It's not so simple.

But, we can do a few things to make it more doable:

1. Committing to promises we KNOW we can keep, no matter what.

I'd much rather you promise us that you're going to exercise two times this week and actually exercise two times than promise us you're going to exercise five times and only exercise four times. There's a lot to be said about sticking to our own word.

By the way, it's not a commitment until we write it down on our report. This is the hardest part.

2. Starting small. Really small.

Let's not say, "I'll never eat XYZ again." How about saying, "Tomorrow, I'm going to choose ABC instead."

Not doing something tomorrow is doable. Not doing something ever again isn't.

2A. Getting even smaller.

For some people, at this moment, not doing something ALL day is daunting.

Let's use sugar as an example.

Instead of committing to not eating sugar all day, let's commit to not eating any sugar with lunch tomorrow. That's more doable, yes?

3. Keeping it small!

Once we start to feel the momentum on our side, it's very easy to commit to enormous things. However, we all only have so much cognition and willpower, no matter how unstoppable we feel.

Marathons are run mile by mile, no matter how fast we feel.

4. Let's use human nature to our advantage!

The fact that we hate breaking promises to others is to our advantage because we all have a system in place that works. Hello, MyDailyFeedback! :)

This is why writing it down on our report is so hard. We know that if we write it down, it has to get done...

Because the discomfort of not doing what we said we'd do is far greater than the discomfort of actually getting it done.

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This isn't only about our health and fitness. Everything impacts everything.

There's a reason why we have the "three outcomes" section. This is for us to commit to three tasks we'd like to get done the next day. We purposely only have three because, otherwise, it becomes overwhelming. Imagine if we did just three impactful tasks every single day for a year!?

The more you can tell us, the more we can hold you accountable. And as we all know, accountability never fails. It allows us to stay consistent and consistency is the key to our success.

Consistently doing what we promised is what leads to self-confidence. And when we know we have a system in place to make good on all of those promises, we feel very confident - almost, unstoppable!

-Adam

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