Welcome to the Level Up Your Life podcast hosted by the indelible Mark Black. This weekly podcast will have you striving to meet your goals and great new ones with a zeal you didn't know you had. During each episode, Mark will bring to life some facet of yourself you have either been ignoring or didn't know existed.

In this episode, Mark brings up the touchy topic of Confidence. Immediately he makes clear that confidence does not mean having all the answers. Mark explains in his opinion confidence is being ready to learn and having a belief in yourself that you can acquire the skills you need.  Mark gives his personal definition of confidence as: know you are enough, just as you are and you have what you need to do what you were called to do. Mark offers a confidence quiz for you to rank yourself to give yourself a baseline to see where or if you need to improve.

What Confidence is Not:

• Arrogance
• • Comparing
  • Can not learn anything more
• Superiority
• • "I'm better than xx"
• Having all the answers
• Perfection

What Confidence is/entails:

• Self-worth
• • Your sense of value as a human being.
  • Humility does not mean having a low self-worth
  • I am infinitely valuable and so are you
  • An exercise in self-worth
• Agency
• • Ability to create results
  • A sense that you can do what needs to be done
• Experience
• • Action
  • Accomplishment
  • Challenge
  • • Tips on how to build confidence  
    • Assignment for the week

"Confidence doesn't happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you're ready to face all the questions."

"Anyone who thinks they have all the answers scares me."

"As long as you know how to find the answers, that's what is more important."

"What got you here, won't get you there."

"Thinking you can do everything is delusion or arrogance."

"Be careful not to compare. My journey is not your journey and your journey is not my journey."

 

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