289: Living a Confident Life

Imagine how you would feel if no matter the situation, you had confidence.  Even if the people in your world don’t see eye to eye.. you were grounded in knowing your truth.  In this episode, Betsy talks all about confidence and growth. How you do one thing is how you do everything.  How are you treating situations, people in your world, and even yourself lately?  >>> Connect with Betsy on IG @betsypake Transcription: For today, I really wanted to talk to you about confidence. You know, one of the things that I hear a lot from people, whether it’s my coaching clients, or people in my certification, or just people that reach out to me is that they have something that they really want to do. You know, they have some thought or goal or idea of something that they really want to experience in their life. And then when they tell me, then they immediately tell me the reasons why it’s not feasible. Like, why it can’t happen. I’ve noticed this in myself, too, right? I mean, we all do this, no one’s immune to it. And I’m certainly not anything I teach this, because I’m like, trying to figure it out myself. Right. And I’ve noticed that I think with over the past couple of years with the Coronavirus, and all of us having to be inside during the pandemic, something has shifted. So it’s been almost exactly two years. For me, since COVID. Hit and I had to make adjustments in my life. I was in LA at the time for like a month. And in the middle of that it was a training that I was at. And in the middle of that I decided to leave the training, the training hadn’t even closed down, although a lot of things in the United States had closed down. But I made the decision I needed to leave. And so I left and came home. And for me, that’s when the that’s when the pandemic started. You know, that’s when being home became a really normal thing. And I’ll tell you for me in the beginning, it was like an introverts greatest wish, because nobody was going out. So there I didn’t have to say no, I didn’t have to feel bad about saying no, because everyone was home. And although there was a lot of unknown and it was scary, and I certainly never wish anybody to get sick or, or to die or to lose loved ones. Obviously that’s obvious. I hope. There was also something for me as an introvert that was, so was nice about being home. And, you know that summer, it, I did a lot of things around my house. And I think a lot of us kind of got into like a pattern of being being home and being in this like, bubble. Now. I was lucky where I lived at the time, I had like a big outdoor deck. And I spent a lot of time outside. And that was great. But as time went on, more and more and more, I wasn’t doing things. And then as things began to sort of open up, then I had gotten in the habit of like not doing things. And maybe you were like that too. Like, like there was so much unknown there was so much like information coming and going you didn’t know can I go out? Can it should I stay in? Do I wear a mask? Do I not wear a mask? Do they work do they not wear like, it was also confusing and everyday was something different, which understandably. And it also led me to, instead of it led me to change my behavior where instead of like, having times where I wanted to be inside as an introvert and then having moments of getting my energy by going out and exploring and seeing new things and meeting up with friends or going to dinner, because I couldn’t do those things. Or because that was so unknown. I was constantly pulling back. So now instead of like this ebb and flow of being out being in being ...