450: 7 Steps to Self Confidence with David Nurse
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
7 Steps to Self Confidence
with David Nurse
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You’re on fire. Every decision, every conversation, and even the way your body moves feels like green lights today. When you’re grounded in self-confidence, everything is possible. But what about those days when your mind muck is so thick, you can’t manage a single email. Self doubt paralyzes you as you flip from your todo list, to Facebook, to Tiktok.
Thinking, re-thinking, doubting. Those days are the worst.
On this week’s show, you’ll meet a former pro basketball player-turned-coach whose clients need to be at the top of their game, literally, in order to stay employed. His 7-step approach breaks self confidence into manageable steps that can be nurtured as a skill.
Listen & Learn
- Why comparison is not always a bad thing
- How to redefine your vocabulary for self empowerment
- Why your sense of self is heightened by serving others
- How to create your own “highlight reel”
Links & Resources
ABOUT OUR GUEST
David Nurse is an NBA life and optimization coach, author and motivational speaker. A former professional basketball player smf coach for the Brooklyn Nets, David has personally helped over 150 NBA players with their personal and professional development both on and off the court. David is the author of, Pivot & Go.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes I find it interesting to see what the best selling books are on Amazon, just |
| 0:07.6 | to see what people are thinking about, and also I like to read a lot of books. |
| 0:11.1 | And one thing you'll find in the personal growth and development category is that books |
| 0:15.5 | on self-worth, self-esteem, self-confidence are always way up high on the list for forever |
| 0:20.8 | and ever. |
| 0:21.8 | This is something that many of us are concerned about. |
| 0:23.9 | It's an interesting topic because I find that almost everybody has high self-esteem |
| 0:28.8 | in certain areas of their life and low self-esteem in other areas of their life. |
| 0:32.7 | So someone might be very, very confident and have very high self-esteem at work, but |
| 0:37.8 | then with their health or their body image, they might be just terrible. |
| 0:42.2 | Somebody might have very high self-esteem as a parent, but terrible self-esteem in an |
| 0:47.2 | intimate relationship. |
| 0:49.1 | And so what do you do about that? |
| 0:50.2 | If you realize that you lack self-esteem for your presentations at work, if you lack self-worth |
| 0:55.1 | when you're trying to get it on an exercise program, how do you work on that skill? |
| 0:59.9 | And it is a skill. |
| 1:00.9 | Self-confidence is a skill. |
| 1:02.5 | And my guess on this week's show has kind of boiled it down into a formula, which I find |
| 1:06.3 | very interesting. |
| 1:07.3 | He uses it with professional basketball players to help them bring their A-game quite |
| 1:12.0 | literally. |
| 1:13.0 | If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. |
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