Believing in Yourself: Recognizing Your Strengths and Skills to Achieve Your Dreams

In this episode, we explore the importance of believing in yourself and recognizing your strengths and skills to achieve your dreams. The truth is that you have already done so much and come so far! We tend to lose sight of that, and in this episode, we’re going to “look again” together! 

Overall, this episode aims to inspire listeners to believe in themselves and recognize the power of their own abilities and talents. Whether you're struggling with self-doubt or looking to enhance your manifestation practice, you will surely gain valuable insights and practical guidance to support you on your journey.

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Episode Transcript

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When it comes to making positive changes in your life,
you don't have to kick the dooropen and go running in with your
guns blazing. But you can, andyou probably already have, you
just didn't notice that that waswhat you were doing. It probably
just looked a lot like life. Andyou just didn't notice. But hey,
let's look again, together,shall we? And here's the thing.

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We don't give ourselves creditfor our wins, growth, for how
far we've come, and how oftenthat we have broken through
boundaries and borders andbarriers, and expanded our
horizons again and again andagain, in our lives. And if we
don't take the time to do thisfor ourselves, then we're not

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using all of our full potentialto get to where we want to be.
Because we have this incrediblyfalse sense of fear, and
incredibly false sense of doubt.
That is holding us back. Youalready have the power, you
already know the way you havegotten yourself where you want
to be confidently 1000s of timesbefore today, a fun way to do

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this can be to look at it in alinear fashion. So let's start
all the way back to beginning.
Let me ask you, is theresomebody that's pushing you
around in a stroller today?
Yeah, me neither. Right. Sowe've both learned walk Hell
yeah. And consequently, now thatI think about it, I've also
mastered running, cartwheelsskiing, meditation, yoga, think

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about it. Think about the thingsthat you do with your body that
you've learned over the years,and how you've expanded your
horizons, you didn't just staystuck in one aspect of your
ability, you continue to pushyourself and to grow and to
expand and just work your way upthrough time just on this first
question about your physicalabilities. And, for example, I

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know that just in the last fewmonths, I have mastered posture.
Now, hello, this took me 50years, okay, but I am doing it
and it's a total game changer, Ijust didn't know. And I decided
to start understanding it tostart practicing to change my
posture. And it's justwonderful. So spend some time

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having fun, going from thebeginning up to where you are
now. And looking at physicalabilities where you have really
pivoted, where you have creatednew, expansive possibilities in
your own life, then, let's thinkabout relationships. Yeah, let's
open that can of worms. When youthink about your relationships,

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what have you gotten clear on?
When have you stood up foryourself, or someone else, or
for change? Probably a milliontime I know that I used to put
up with so much crap in my life.
I truly thought that was justhow life was. Then I started
saying, Okay, well, I wantchange, I'm not going to consent

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to this. And I started walkingaway from things that I didn't
want. And lo and behold, anothergame changer. And now it just
seems crazy to me the things Iused to do, the borders that I
allowed myself to live with him,and I broke through them, I
expanded, I kicked that dooropen. Maybe it didn't look like
that at the time. But now that Ireflect on, I'm like, Oh my

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gosh, there's a world ofdifference now, in my
relationships, because of mebecause of the things I've done.
And the same is true for you forall of us, which don't take the
time to stop and take stock ofit. It's easy to not notice. And
I'm just inviting you to stopand ask yourself, well, where
are my pivot points. And whenhave I committed and gone all

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in, they probably weren't bigdeals, you probably didn't
notice other people probablydidn't notice. But as you
reflect back on them, yourealize like, Whoa, that was a
when I was celebrating that. Inreflecting on my own life. I
have this one incident thatreally stands out, I actually
come back to it prettyfrequently. And I love
celebrating myself. Even thoughat the time, I didn't realize

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what a big deal it was. I didn'trealize I was knocking on a door
and coming in with guns blazingfor myself. And here's what
happened. I was on a first datewith a fellow. And I had also
just finished writing my bookfree Lark. And turns out writing
books is hard. It's a lot ofwork. And it's just, it's a lot
of filtering through your souland translating that into words

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that make sense. And I was justfeeling incredibly accomplished
because he had just finished thebook. And so I shared this I was
really excited. You know, whenwe were at dinner, I was like,
Oh man, I just finished writingthis book. I'm so excited. It
feels so good. Any sort ofleaned back and he said, well
look at you all full ofyourself. And I thought, hmm,
gee whiz. Wonder what thisrelationship would be like,

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clearly to me, not one that Iwant to get engaged with. And I
made a decision even though Iliked this guy. He was cute. He
was fun hanging out with but Imay had a decision that expanded
my boundaries in relationships.
At that moment, I finisheddinner, I paid for my dinner. I
thanked him for the niceevening. And that was the end of

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that he didn't notice I didn'tmake a big deal about it. I
didn't say anything. Even at thetime, I didn't make a big deal
about it in my own mind. But nowwhen I reflect on it, I think,
wow, I really showed up formyself, I am so proud of myself.
What a wonderful point ofclarity on my self worth on what
my expectations are forrelationships and that sort of

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thing. And I'm sure that youhave many, many, many things
like this, that when you reallyreflect back, you're like, wow,
I have showed up for myself timeand time again, and I've
expanded my boundaries. And I'vepivoted, and I've created new
options and opportunities for meand my life. So yeah, you don't
have to kick the door down andrun in with the guns blazing,

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and a big, big show how tocreate really powerful changes
in your life. And withoutquestion, you have already done
that for yourself. 1000s if notmillions of times over and over
again. And I invite you to takestock of that today.