Taking imperfect action

Join me in Episode 16 of The Inspiring Mums Podcast where I talk about how taking imperfect action is the key to building your confidence and bringing your unspoken dreams to life.

In this episode, I talked about:

* how we can stop ourselves from achieving our dreams through fear of failure, fear of judgement or overwhelm - all of these negative thoughts going around in our head means that we talk ourselves out of taking action

* how the answer to getting past these negative thoughts is actually taking action - doing the thing that feels scary

* my story of how I had my own unspoken dreams for so so long, and in the end going through a tough time mentally as a mum, changed my mindset and make me think, “what happens if I just try?”

* how you’ll never feel confident enough to take action, instead it’s the other way around - taking action leads to confidence

* what I mean by ‘taking imperfect action’ - we are never going to feel ready to take action, we can’t wait for that perfect set of circumstances to appear

* how we don’t need to wait for when we have a perfect plan to take action - and actually getting out of “planning mode” is a good thing

* how things will happen that won’t be in your plan - but you’ll be able to figure it out - and this will build your confidence in our capabilities

* taking imperfect action is going to build your momentum, as well as your faith and courage

* how my Reflect, Dream and Plan workbook can support you in making changes in 2025

* how you can get more personalised support from me with my Rediscover YOU 12 week 1 to 1 coaching experience

I hope you enjoy this episode and it helps to encourage you to take imperfect action and have faith and courage in yourself to take action on your dreams.

Quotes from this episode:

*"How can we get past the fear of failure, fear of judgement and feeling overwhelmed? The answer is to take imperfect action."- Jenna Folarin

* “Without taking action, our dreams just stay as dreams, they never see the light of day.” - Jenna Folarin

* “We talk ourselves out of taking any kind of action because of all of these negative thoughts going around in our head which we start to believe.” - Jenna Folarin

* “I realised that I needed to take action to make my dreams become a reality” - Jenna Folarin

* “"I think that going through a tough time, mentally, as a mum stripped away those usual fears that I had., fear of judgement and fear of failure, and that changed my mindset, and made me think - ‘What happens if I just go for it?’, and ‘What happens if I just try?’”- Jenna Folarin

* “If I hadn’t have taken that first step of putting myself out there, being brave and actually sharing my story with other mums and creating this event, then I wouldn’t have retrained as a Coach at all. That first event gave me the courage to believe in myself”- Jenna Folarin

“The biggest realisation I had was that you’ll never feel ready, and you’ll never feel confident enough to take action. It’s actually the other way around, action comes first before confidence.” - Jenna Folarin

* “Once you’ve taken that first step, you build momentum and it’s about taking those steps over and over again.” - Jenna Folarin

* “The more action you take, the more confident you’re going to get because you’ve got this evidence base and knowledge of what works and what doesn’t work.” - Jenna Folarin

* “It’s about backing yourself and having that self belief - believing in your dream, your purpose and why