#509 What happened when I said yes before I felt ready: how commitment led to confidence.

What's really stopping you from stepping into the life that's waiting for you?

Many of us feel stuck between who we are now and who we know we could become. This episode explores the inner resistance we face when stepping into new versions of ourselves, and why waiting to "feel ready" might be holding us back.

In this deeply personal reflection, you will discover:

• Why confidence is the result of action, not the prerequisite.
• How a single decision can shift your mindset and dissolve fear.
• The real power of saying "yes" before you feel ready, and what it unlocks within you.

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Episode Transcript

Agi Keramidas (00:01):
Welcome to Personal Development mastery
podcast. I'm your host, AgiKeramidas, and this episode is
the fifth in a quiet series ofpersonal reflections. Each of
them also a moment for you topause listen and perhaps to

(00:23):
recognise yourself in thequestions I'm asking. If you
have been following these recentepisodes, and you will find a
link to all of them in the shownotes, then you know the thread
you've done the inner work. Youhave grown, you have shifted.

(00:47):
Yet a quiet question surfacesand remains, what's next? What
comes next? Today, I'd like tospeak about something that often
stands between the life we haveand the one waiting for us to

(01:10):
step into it. And I will do thisby sharing a personal story, a
key moment from the early stagesof my personal development
journey.
In 2018 I returned from anintensive five day public

(01:32):
speaking training, which was myvery first experience in public
speaking. I was always beforethen I was always a very scient,
reserved person, and publicspeaking was a huge fear of
mine, but that's another storyfor some other time. So after I

(01:57):
returned from that five daypublic speaking boot camp, I was
filled with knowledge,techniques, the theory, but
still, apart from that trainingenvironment, I did not have any
real world experience. And thensoon after, I was speaking with

(02:21):
someone I knew, who was runninga local property networking
event, and when I told him Ijust did a five day speaking
course, he immediately invitedme to speak at his event the
next month, and I had been tohis event, and there were

(02:42):
usually about 40 to 50 peoplethere. Here's the truth. When he
asked me, I did not feel readyat all to deliver my first
public speech all the fearfulvoices in my head urged me to

(03:11):
to, at least, to delay, youknow, to practice more, to play
it safe. But something deeper inme said, this is an opportunity
say yes, and so I did!That, of course, brought the
fear of anticipation of youknow, what could go wrong, and

(03:33):
all those things the Mind saysto keep us from taking
uncomfortable action, but tostay in the comfort zone anyway,
I digress. So when I said yes,apart from fear, that also
brought commitment. And once thedate of the speech was said,

(03:56):
commitment was followed bycoraz. I rehearsed, I prepared.
By the way, the speech was aboutmindset, and I still remember
that when I finally stepped ontothat stage that evening,
something shifted the feardissolved, and in its place,

(04:23):
there was a sense of presence.
There was a clarity. There wasnot the usual fearful or
disempowering internal dialogue.
It was not about the speakeranymore. It was about the

(04:44):
speaking, that event, thatmoment, taught me something that
I have never forgotten,confidence that's. Come before
action. It comes because ofaction as a result of it, and

(05:05):
this is a pattern I have seenover and over again, both in my
own personal experience and inthe journeys people share with
me in conversation. We tend towait to feel confident before we
act, to have all our ducks in arow, or to have you know, all

(05:27):
the possible eventualitiescovered, and so on. But what
actually happens is thiscommitment to take the action
creates the courage. And thecourage to take the action
builds capability, which thenbecomes confidence. It is a

(05:48):
circle. You grow into it.
So if there is something callingyou now, a step, a challenge, a
transition, and you are waitingfor the right moment to feel
ready to do it. I will inviteyou to consider this, what if

(06:16):
the readiness is waiting for youon the other side of the
decision. This is the kind ofspace I offer in one to one
coaching. It's not about addingmore strategies, but creating

(06:40):
space, space for presence, forclarity and self discovery to
emerge. So maybe this is yourmoment to say yes, not because
you feel ready, but because yousense it's the right time, if

(07:00):
that stares something in you,then I'm here. Reach out to me
using the link in the shownotes, and we'll have a
conversation until next timestand out don't fit in and don't
settle for a life that feelssmaller than the one you know is
possible.