Comparison feels like motivation, but it is one of the fastest ways to destroy confidence, consistency, and long-term results. In this episode of Sell Anything, JL Van Zyverden talks about why confidence is not built by looking better than someone else, but by completing the promises you make to yourself. Drawing from years of personal training and leadership development, JL explains how comparison creates shame cycles, why social media highlight reels sabotage discipline, and how real confidence is earned through daily execution. This episode reframes fitness, sales, and life through one core principle: stop competing with others and start completing what you commit to. When completion replaces comparison, confidence compounds and progress becomes inevitable.

Chapters

(00:00) Introduction

(01:06) Why Comparison Crushes Confidence

(02:12) The Pit of Comparison and the Shame Cycle

(03:24) John Wooden and Competing With Yourself

(05:53) Completion Is What Builds Real Confidence

What’s one promise you keep breaking to yourself that’s killing your confidence? Name it. No explanations needed.

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