Episode 202

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3rd Apr 2024

Building Your Confidence: Being the Main Character of Your Own Life: Confident People Are Self-Aware

Building Your Confidence: Being the Main Character of Your Own Life: Confident People Are Self-Aware

We’ve all had those moments where reality slapped us in the face. Mine was an anniversary picture where I looked like I needed a man bra. It was not a pretty site and it woke me up to reality. My self-awareness had woken up.

We all need to have a healthy dose of self-awareness to grow in our confidence. Being the main character of our lives means taking full responsibility for ourselves and our actions. Without self-awareness, we can't take responsibility and we will always lack true confidence. We will only play pretend based on our faulty logic.

Self-awareness is a big key to confidence and we will look at what it means for us in how we think.

You Don’t Have to Know Everything to Be Confident

- When you study some of the CEOs who are the most successful, you often find they have a strong sense of what they are good at and what they aren’t

- They are willing to say “I don’t know” and let experts do their job

- We often get caught up in ourselves and think we have to be able to have all the answers.

- We all have areas we love and excel in and areas we don’t.

You Don’t Have to Excel at Everything to be Confident

- We all have strengths, and we all have weaknesses

1. Recognize your strengths

2. Acknowledge your weaknesses


You Don’t Have to be Perfect to Be Confident

- There is tremendous pressure for guys to be self-sufficient. To be the full package.

- We can’t do it all. We can’t be it all. outside of Jesus, NO ONE IS THE FULL PACKAGE.

- We don’t have unlimited supplies of energy and stamina

- Resting and relaxing can be something we recharge with and not just run away to

- Productivity is not the purpose of life


CHALLENGE: Self Awareness Comes from Learning, Reflection, and Trustworthy Opinions

Learning

- Objective tools to help you build categories for strengths and weaknesses. (No one tool is perfect, but many are useful.)

- Strengthfinders assessment

- Working Genius Assessments

Reflecting

- Work + Love

- What are you good at and enjoy?

- What are you good at but don’t like it?

Trustworthy Opinions

- Find people you trust to ask them their thoughts

- What do you think I am good at?

- Where are some areas in which I don’t excel?

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David & Reese Maxwell


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David and Reese Maxwell are a father and son duo with a passion to help men live the best life possible.