Description

36. Trusting Yourself

Today’s episode is focused on self-trust. The trust that you have (or don’t have yet) in yourself and why it is important. When you don’t trust yourself, you look around for others to give you validation. What do they think about vs what do you think about. It comes from a lack of confidence in what you know and can do. It signals that you think others know more than you, that they may make better decisions and that you have put them on a pedestal. You care more about them and their thoughts than your own, which makes it hard to trust yourself and your decisions.

In this episode:

• Why do people care what others think anyway? 
• Examples of choices that people make simply to make others happy – even if it doesn’t make them happy.
• What are the choices that you have made in your life?
• “What people think about you is not important, what you think of yourself means everything.” 
• Do you have the courage to stand up for something that you believe in…even if no one else does? Can you say what others will not and be the one to do what is right?
• Do you trust your gut when making decisions vs needing external validation and approval?
• Do you accept a no or view it as a not yet?
• Are you willing to stand up for members of your team and defend them when necessary?
• “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how much they seldom do.” 
• Track your decisions in a decision journal so you can see how many times that you are right!

Today’s episode is sponsored by:

The Choose Your Life Challenge at https://www.theoppositeofsmalltalk.com/challenge

Use the promo code - Challenge4 for a 20% discount to the program and live a more intentional life!

Thank you for listening to The Visibility Factor Podcast

Check out my website to order my book and view the videos/resources for The Visibility Factor book.

As always, I encourage you to reach out! You can email me at hello@susanmbarber.com. You can also find me on social media everywhere – Facebook, LinkedIn, and of course on The Visibility Factor Podcast! I look forward to connecting with you!

If you liked The Visibility Factor, I would be so grateful if you could subscribe and rate it where you listen to podcasts! It helps the podcast get in front of more people who can learn how to be visible too!

Thank you to the team at Sheep Jam Productions for the amazing support of The Visibility Factor Podcast!