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?
Watch and Enjoy!
David & Reese Maxwell
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