Everyday Confidence - The Skillful Mind: Recent Episodes
Steve George
Actionable Tips, Tricks and Techniques for a More Confident Life.
In these short podcasts, I'll address one, confidence building tip, trick, or technique and give you a way to take some action, so you can put it into practice.
Today's podcast episode is about how to 'beat the blues' and come out stronger, clearer, and more effective on the other side.
So this podcast is about re-kindling our commitment to ourselves, overcoming the blues, and putting ourselves in a position to come back fighting.
Now, I’m not saying that you’ll never feel blue, and you’ll never feel disappointed if you do these things. Just that, if you use these tools, you can deal with things like disappointment, quickly and efficiently without falling under their spell.
https://theskillfulmind.com/podcast/35
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This episode is about simple tricks to help overcome your fear of failure. What to think about, when wondering whether to try something new.
The worst thing you can do is not to try. Don't let the fear of failure push you away from what you really want in life.
https://theskillfulmind.com/podcast/34
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One of the biggest problems we face, as people who are low in confidence, is our propensity to procrastinate. We think if we put something off enough, eventually it’ll go away and we won’t have to deal with it. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. What you resist persists. The more you try to push an issue, or difficult situation away, the more effort it puts into causing trouble.
In this episode, Ill give you a simple way to beat your procrastination gremlin.
https://theskillfulmind.com/podcast/33
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In today’s I episode, I’m going to expand a bit on one of the items I mentioned in last weeks episode. That was an episode on How to start a regular morning routine and a brief introduction into some of the things you could add to it.
The area I mentioned in last week’s episode is… “Decide on one thing every day that you can do for YOU. Something that will give you joy and will make today a good day.”
Today, I'll give you 21 ways you make that happen.
https://theskillfulmind.com/podcast/32
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On today’s Podcast, I talk about creating a simple morning routine to help you build your confidence. I give you 3 simple ways to help start your day off the right way. Helping you to feel energized and good about yourself.
https://theskillfulmind.com/podcast/31
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One of the questions I get asked most often, is “how can I feel more confident about starting a convewrsation with someone I don’t know?” And surprisingly, if you go about it in the right way, it’s not that difficult. Today’s episode will show you how to do it AND meet your need for contribution and growth at the same time.
https://theskillfulmind.com/podcast/30
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Hi and welcome to 2-Minute Tuesday. On today’s show I talk about why it’s important to take some risks if you want to improve your confidence. And I’ll give you some quick tips on how to go about doing it.
TheSkillfulMind.com/Podcast/29
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On today’s show I’ll be dealing with something we’re all guilty of sometimes… getting distracted. Even though getting distracted doesn’t seem like that big of a deal, it can have huge effects on your confidence and self esteem.
So, today, we’re going to go through some ways to stop that happening.
TheSkillfulMind.com/Podcast/28
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This week’s 2-minute Tuesday podcast is about zooming out when you have a failure. Stepping back and looking at the bigger picture, rather than making this one failure, bigger than it really is.
TheSkillfulMind.com/Podcast/27
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Today, I’ll explain the benefits of writing to yourself in the future, so why you should be doing it. I’ll go over the sort of things you should be including in it and how to go about sending it. Then I’ll point you in the direction of some of the resources available to help you do that.
TheSkillfulMind.com/Podcast/26
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Tuesday's episode of the Everyday Confidence Podcast is a short 2-4 minute episode, that gives you one simple thing to try over the coming days/weeks. This weeks episode is about completing a 30-day challenge to increase your confidence.
TheSkillfulMind.com/Podcast/25
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In Today’s Episode, I’ll be briefly explining why you should have a Personal Blueprint. A future avatar of yourself, that you can use to give you focus on what you really want your future to look like.
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In this episode, I explain how your mind proves to you, that your incapable of doing many of the things you really want to do. And that happens, because your mind has two parts to it.
Your conscious mind, the part that has the original negative thought and your sub-conscious mind, which is the part that proves to you, that you were right. And once you know how it does that, you can use the same process to prove to yourself that you can do these things.
TheSkillfulMind.com/podcast/23
Today’s Confidence Quick Tips episode is about doing this confidence thing the right way. And by the right way, I mean taking things slow. Don’t try to do too much too soon.
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Today’s Confidence Quick Tips episode, is all about taking control of your Negative Self-talk. Cutting off your negative thoughts and replacing them with positive ones.
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Today, I want to touch on self-belief. What it is, why it affects us the way it does and how to beat it.
I'm also going to give you some tools to try to make that easier for you to achieve.
Today’s Confidence Quick Tip, is to remember that confidence is not a destination, but a journey. Your confidence builds every time you take one small, seemingly inconsequential step.
Today's episode is about using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), to help you improve your confidence.
The three tools are, Anchoring, Meta-modelling and Re-framing. In this week's show I'll explain how each of these tools work and give some examples of how you can use them, to change your thought patterns.
**Apologies for the occassional 'bump' noises. I'd forgotten to remove the cordless headphones from around my neck and it wasn't until I started editing, that I noticed they sometimes knocked into my pop filter! Sorry, it won't happen again :-(
Today’s Confidence Quick Tip, is to always cherish any compliments. They're a huge boost to your self-esteem. Having low-self-esteem makes it difficult for us to accept compliments, but cherishing those compliments will make us so much happier.
On today’s episode, we’ll talk about using the feelings associated with regret, to help you boost your confidence. And, I’ll introduce you to a technique developed by Tony Robbins, called ‘The Rocking Chair Test’.
On today’s show, I’ll let you know the unfortunate truth about how your confidence got the way it did.
But, I’ll also show you what you need to do, to take responsibility for your confidence in the future. And ways to make that happen.
Show notes over at TheSkillfulMind.com/Podcast/15
Your comfort zone is really the only thing that restricts your level of self-confidence. How you act, has a major effect on how confident you feel. And, how confident you feel, will generally dictate how you act.
In this Episode, I’ll take you through the simple things you can do every day, to help you easily step outside of your Comfort Zone. Moving forward using small, stress-free actions every day, can have huge, positive results on your level of confidence.
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On today’s show, I’ll explain why Failure can be a good thing.
Some of the most successful people, got that way, even after huge failures. They realized how beneficial it can be to use their failures in a more productive way.
During the show, I’ll show you how to flip-the-switch, and turn the negative into a positive.
Constant failure and review can bring huge benefits in the end.
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Today’s show, is about, Why should you start a journal.
Journaling is one of the most powerful things you can do in daily life. Especially if you want to use it as a tool for increasing your confidence and self-esteem.
Today, I’ll go through the two main reasons people are cautious about starting a journal. And I’ll highlight some ways you can stop, or at least mitigate these concerns.
I’ll introduce to you the 60 second journal and give you a selection of journal prompt, to make the process of journaling easier and more enjoyable.
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On today’s show we discuss Procrastination.
The average understanding of procrastination, is that it means doing things that are a ‘time suck’. e.g. Scrolling through Social Media, or binge watching TV.
But procrastination, can also be spending time working in the right areas, but on the wrong things. Today. we'll discuss them both and find out how be more productive.
Today, we'll use Anchoring to change the feelings we associate to our bad experiences. So we can enjoy a more positive experience next time.
What is your belief system? How are your decisions affected by it? And how can you change negative beliefs into more powerful ones?
The way we think determines the way we act. In this episode, you'll learn how to change your negative beliefs into beliefs that will empower you to make the changes you desire.
Today’s show is about Core Values.
We ask, “What are Core Values?”, “Why do they matter, when it comes to building confidence?” and “How can we use them most effectively, to help us build a confident future?”
Low confidence and self-esteem is, in the main due of the negative thoughts we have about how capable we are and what we believe about ourselves.
In Today's show the subject is Positivity and how you can transform your negative mindset, into a positive one.
Today’s show is all about how the mind interacts with the body. How our internal feelings are presented in the way we act.
If we change the way we hold our body, we can change the way our mind reacts.
In this episode, I want to talk a little bit about what it takes, to use goal setting as a way to build your confidence.
The goal you’re trying to achieve, doesn’t have to be related to building your confidence at all.
Your goal could be, to be able to speak at a public meeting. It could also be to have a new car. Neither one is better than the other.
What makes the difference, is your ability to take action.
In today's episode, I introduce a powerful questioning technique, known as GROW.
It's a process used in various aspects of personal development and the primary tool used by Life Coaches, to help their clients get clear on their goals. For our purposes, spend some time developing your goals using either SMART or WOOP first. Then, this process will help you go deeper and give you more clarity.
In today's episode, I talk about a system with three decades of studies behind it. It's from Professor of Psychology, Gabriele Oettengen.
The process is known as WOOP, which is an acronym for 'WISH', 'OUTCOME', 'OBSTACLES and PLAN.
In this episode, we’ll break down the different sections of the SMART goal setting process.
There are several tried and tested systems for setting goals and they each have their own benefits. But none of that matters when life gets in the way, or you lose interest and your motivation wanes.
In this episode I’ll share with you a process that keeps you motivated and gives you the energy and determination to reach your goals, even if things get tough.