#243: HOW TO FACE YOUR BATTLES AND WIN

HOW TO FACE YOUR BATTLES AND WIN PODCAST #243 In this episode of Confidence on the Go we’re chatting about: * Identifying what battles are your most challenging and defining in life and how to gear up to battle to win differently * Believing you can win before you even go to the metaphorical battle line * Leveraging your losses and setbacks with confidence Also – I have a new free video series, a #QuickConfidenceBoost I put together to celebrate this awesome community milestone together!   Grab the videos now and start your #QuickConfidenceBoost! Grab your #QuickConfidenceBoost at www.trishblackwell.com/quickconfidenceboost As always, a quick hello to all of my Keep the Faith listeners, thanks for being a part of this extended community of contagious encouragement. SPONSORSHIP NOTE: I am proud to be an educator and consultant for Beautycounter, a B-Corp company on a mission to get safer products into the hands of everyone.   The lack of regulation in the personal care and cosmetic industry is astounding and it is harming our health in very serious ways. We need more voices to join up on our mission. If you want to put your passion to purpose while being generously compensated, then I would love to start a conversation with you about what it means to be involved in the #saferbeauty tribe that is Beautycounter. Join the movement of #betterbeauty and message me via email to make your voice really resonate for a cause.   Shop for your own Beautycounter collection at www.beautycounter.com/trishblackwell WHAT ARE YOUR BATTLES? Victory evades so many of us in various areas of life – from anxiety and depression to financial freedom and self-confidence – but it doesn’t have to. In fact, we were created to be overcomers, not on our own power, but through that of God’s through us.   The truth is that while we all battle our way through life, very few of us actually muster up the courage to face our battles with the intent to win. When we face our battles and look them in the eyes, then the battle changes and so do we. Battles are won and lost in the strategy and in the approach. In life, whether the battle is an internal one or an external one, it is best tackled through our thoughts. Often it is busyness and distraction that confines us to thinking how we have always thought, but God wants more for us than that. When we lean into His teachings and mindset strategies, God can take our thinking of the past and transform it into thinking that wins.   God freed us from our thoughts and He offers to us a different way to face our battles – and, every time we choose to show up to battle with God’s thinking in our thinking, we will always win. Every victory starts first with one win. My first win came from victory over what I thought was my darkest battle – and it opened within me a new belief system about myself, about God and about the victory God has offered to me. After a decade of struggle and of thinking God had forgotten about me, my thinking was transformed and I started to believe in freedom and in change. I saw God’s hand in my life and I believed He wanted the best for me. I began to see myself capable of changing my thoughts, but more than that, I took ownership of my responsibility for stewarding them. God has given us all of the tools we need to train our mind for victory over every battle and He is calling us to rise up and show up with courage to face the things we have spent a lifetime running from. Everyone has an “opening battle,” or an initial wake up to the epic war of spiritual proportions that goes on in our minds and our lives and the first time you face your “opening battle,” or your first personified “enemy,” is an imperative step for greater change and vi...