Hello! Welcome back to the podcast!
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I am in a good mood today and I'm very excited to record this
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Because life is just so much better when you believe in your freaking self,
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okay? So today I wanted to dive into this topic because it's been coming
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and everybody's kind of struggling with believing in their ability to win.
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So I wanted to share some perspectives and insights today from my lived experience
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as someone who has struggled with a lot of self-belief.
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And also how I coach my nurses through this.
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themselves. paths. The first place where I want to start is that we have
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as humans who nurse, we have been conditioned within the healthcare system
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to prioritise other people's needs.
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We prioritise other people ahead of ourselves.
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And we are constantly measured against our compliance,
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our humility, our overgiving. Just doing the job.
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And the result of this is that many of us,
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myself included, absorb the belief that our values matter.
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And you can start to see how we lean into self-doubt as just a
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And many of us have established this from the get-go,
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you know, maybe even before that, some of us have been conditioned into a
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started navigating my sexuality.
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like, 10, 11 years old that I was attracted to guys and I
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So, of course, naturally, I learnt whilst I was a neuroplastic sponge as a
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doubting what I would eat today, doubting my career choices,
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doubting my friendship group, doubting myself.
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So you can start to bring some awareness to that and think about for
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Maybe your parents don't have strong belief because they
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and all they do is b****, whine and complain all the time.
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and they don't believe that their goals are possible and they'll find every reason
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to justify why they haven't yet achieved them.
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in your life are you surrounded by people that engage in that cognitive dissonance?
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want the lovely house. They want the beautiful car. And instead of focusing on
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if we want to change what we believe is possible for us in our
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nursing career. So, first step is have a think about where have you been
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Love you mum and dad. so have a think about where in your life
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And it's my mission.
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And I mean that with love. Because most nurses in most environments are in
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a chronic state of fight or flight. And whilst that's not a normal state
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with our nervous system, its goal is to keep us safe,
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So, we want to acknowledge that our nervous system operates at that state of
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And when we're in high-stress environments and we increase our allostatic load,
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which is basically a fancy word for chronic stress,
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our nervous system can get stuck in survival mode and when we're in survival
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And when your amygdala's running the show, your prefrontal cortex,
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is offline. You have no access to it.
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I don't know why I said the Sahara because I don't know what animals
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Right, we are being chased by a lion. Your amygdala fires ahead of time,
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it sees the lion, it is shit scared,
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you go into survival fight of flying. In that moment,
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your amygdala is running the show, and you have fear,
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Of course, unless it's behind a glass wall and it cannot get to you.
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it makes complete sense that your prefrontal cortex is offline because it's not useful
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You need fight or flight. Your prefrontal cortex brain does not require to do
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a data analysis of how likely it is that the lion or the tiger
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is going to eat you. and let's look at some peer-reviewed journal articles.
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No, we need you to go from where you are to run,
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fight or flight, out of that stress environment,
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not saying that our work stresses are not real,
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but a lot of them are perceived ahead of time.
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A lot of them are cognitive. A lot of them we've been conditioned to
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and we will not die if there are less staff on the unit.
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Does it? Is it for a shitty day? Absolutely,
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because we operate from that state all the time,
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really negatively impact your ability to believe in yourself,
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because you're just operating from a fear-based mind,
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okay? So think about it. How hard is it for you when you're in
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Life's just great. This is exactly what I asked for.
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It's really difficult to get there. So your nervous system is adapting,
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and many of us, we have literally lived in this space for a whole
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life, in fight or flight. So maybe you don't believe in yourself,
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because you've been in a state of chronic dysregulation.
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Again, we don't shame ourselves. We just go,
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oh, that would make sense. That would make total sense.
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And then we get to play with the idea of like, oh, I'm. If
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which you can, because you're human, and if I was able to really intentionally
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and do that more frequently, and do that more regularly,
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could I maybe start to believe in myself?
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And the answer is yes, 100%.
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that's exactly what we've done. We have taken them out of a state of
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this is so foreign to me. I was actually coaching somebody recently who is,
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in my Nurse Entrepreneurship Academy where I help nurses build their online businesses,
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and, and leverage and package up their skills to make money online.
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And we were talking about this, and we were talking about the fact that
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never has felt comfortable when there's time and space
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to do nothing. so when she's at work,
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and it's quote-unquote boring or less busy,
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that it deeply dysregulates her, and I said it makes total sense to me.
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Because your nervous system is so used to being so,
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I know I said the cue words, but that quiet word,
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or the quiet environment, triggers our nervous system to think that something bad is
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And we were kind of laughing and joking about it, but we came back
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We want to be open to that,
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That is where you will get the promotion. That is where you'll land the
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okay? your dreams and desires do not come from dysregulation.
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where our prefrontal cortex, our highest level expression thinking part of our brain,
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is online, tapped in, tuned in.
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That is when you'll have the ahas.
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Just think about that in your own life. How is that true?
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or you go for a walk. Or you go for a swim,
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like a nice coffee, you know, maybe not an actual alcoholic drink.
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But you regulate your nervous system, and then the clarity comes.
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That's because you've turned off your survival brain,
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and you have brought online your prefrontal cortex.
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So when we're building our belief, we have to acknowledge that if we are
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in a state of dysregulation, we're not going to be able to believe
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because your survival brain is running the show.
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So, how do we do that? We want to make sure that we get
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which is the burnout state of the nervous system,
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and we want to get ourselves up into regulation,
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okay? And we want to start building that skill.
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For many of you, you have not ever consciously practiced regulating your nervous system.
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and I look at the wonder and the beauty of the world,
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and that regulates my nervous system. I will do some deep breathing,
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and I'll focus on my breath, and I'll put my hand on my chest,
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and I will regulate my nervous system.
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and just be in awe and wonder of,
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Where are we? And that regulates my nervous system.
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When I'm on a plane, I know you can't hear you can't just jump
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like, I can be down there, and I'm so tiny, and now I'm up
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regulates my nervous system okay even just therapeutic touch of yourself and whenever
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where we can believe in ourselves harder okay and why this
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That's all incredible What comes with that is the discomfort of
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Okay, you cannot get to the dream destination without believing harder
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in yourself. It's a non-negotiable Okay,
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if you continue to choose to doubt yourself,
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you will just create distance between where you are and where you want to
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to reduce the time and the effort and the pain and the suffering to
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It sounds so simple but I'm learning slowly because I
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Our brain wants it to be harder. Who wants to lose weight and say,
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I just walked more? You want to be able to say,
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oh my God, I did CrossFit three times a week and like,
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you want people to be like, wow. But you know when I tell people
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eating less, and pushing myself in training,
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But in order to get there we have to stop,
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I urge you to stop being in dissonance with what you want.
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You are here asking for something that you want in the future,
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but in the here and now you're disbelieving that that could ever be true
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You have to stop it. It is not helpful.
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And I know that because I've done it for so many friggin years As
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that everybody else is going to be more successful than me My brain does
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They have their own demons They have their own self-belief issues.
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I don't need to absorb theirs. I have enough of my own Right? And
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even if it's just that I stop looking at their content That is a
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Can you see how that's true? If I continue to tell myself I will
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some would argue delusionally deep But they get the result And
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doubting my abilities much like you are.
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what if you could absolutely smash the CNS application?
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or the num application, or master and find that niche.
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no, where your focus goes, attention flows Okay,
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you create We turn thoughts into things.
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I just had a thought, what if I could be an online nurse career
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there were people doing it in the US, but I'd never seen them,
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but I had that thought, what if I could be a nurse career coach?
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I emotionally connected to that, I was like, oh this really feels aligned for
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on a deep subconscious level, not to pay attention to it I coached somebody
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and they fought through the discomfort of growth In order to create that result
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Why are we not celebrating the shit out of the fact,
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that you had a thought, you had an idea And you put in the
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You took aligned action, despite feeling the discomfort of growth and success
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you must give yourself permission To capture yourself on the journey to that
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so that you can, every single day, see that you are making progress Towards
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for the world to see. To show us, and give us belief,
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I want you to look inward, and to look at how far you've come
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because you keep tuning into the station That is,
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you know, Debbie Downer, that's doubtful,
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that's fearful We need to re-tune to the station that takes you in the
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in disbelief of themselves, feeling good It doesn't feel good,
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We've raised our awareness today to why we might do a conditioning Our nervous
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it's like literally a science, it literally is a science The people that I
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in what is possible for them Not in many of you are gonna think
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If you're okay sitting there thinking that,
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you won't achieve your goals. You cannot hold a negative
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right? Like, we can't. We cannot do that.
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okay? We do not want to indulge in that.
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We want to make sure that the dream and the goal that you have,
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alignment to that, and your actions,
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so that that becomes something that's as good as done.
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That's why whenever somebody says to me, hey Liam,
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I want to achieve this, I'm always like, oh my god,
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alongside me, they borrow my belief in them.
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which is what you can also do. You can borrow belief from other people.
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If people tell you you're crazy graded something, and you shrug it off,
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stop doing that. Give yourself permission to accept it.
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are unapologetic and you are delusion,
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like delusionally in belief of yourself.
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But by delusional, I mean you've collected data.
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It just feels delusional. It just It feels insane to be like,
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There are no limits. So stop imposing those limits on yourself.
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Building your belief is a lifetime thing.
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It's not something that's going to happen overnight. And for many of you that
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like myself, and we're over the age of 26,
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27, 28, then rewiring our neural pathways takes us more
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because the time passes anyway.
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anything and everything, why can't you choose to believe in yourself?
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So my friend, I hope that I've inspired you today.
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but to choose to believe in yourself, because there's no greater feeling than
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come into fruition. And I'll leave you with this.
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Whatever goals or dreams or aspirations you have,
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Whatever that little seed of desire is that you have.
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I believe that it is your duty,
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much like it's your Apricot of conduct duty.
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everything to make that come to fruition in reality.
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You have that idea, that,
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that pull for a reason.
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And I allowed myself to follow that. And I built belief in it ahead
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I allowed myself to collect the data of the belief.
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Not intentionally, but subconsciously. When I don't believe in what I have to offer
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And that if you have a desire or a dream or a goal or
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and to energetically, mentally,
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That is the magic of believing in yourself. And I want that for absolutely
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every single one of you listening across the globe to be able to believe
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I'll chat to you next week. Stay safe. Stay forever curious and start friggin
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