You're listening to the Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized Confidence Coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the Internet.

I teach go-getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey guys, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to the Confidence Podcast. We're in episode number 467. How to believe that you matter in the world.

This is for those of you who want to feel more fulfilled, who want to have more purpose, who want to know your purpose, who you feel like there should be more to life, more satisfaction, more joy, more peace, and you just don't feel it.

This is going to help. This conversation today will help because knowing that you have a purpose, knowing that you have it, and then going deeper and knowing what yours is, will make your life come alive.

It puts spark in your step, fizzle in your life, effort, vessence in the way you live.

It gives meaning to the mundane and puts fire in the places you want to wake up in your heart. Purpose is the drive of confidence that we all crave, but most people feel lost in that area.

In this episode, it's going to coach you on where to start and how to believe first that you matter in the world and then how to start showing up in a way that makes a difference.

As always, you can get the full show notes at trishblackwell.com, 4-4-6-7.

I want to tell you that the reason I want to talk about this topic is because I've had way too many conversations recently with high achievers who are so in the zone of achievement, who are so

just successful, who are high achieving, whether it's in an athletic scenario, an academic scenario, professional scenario, entrepreneurial, or social, they are crushing it.

But the problem is, is that there's always more. There's always that finish line always moves. It's the treadmill that never stops.

The hamster wheel that you think you're doing enough, and then you feel like you are, and then you get that accomplishment where you promised yourself you'd finally be happy.

And then the happiness lasts for two minutes and it's a let down. You go, there's got to be more.

And I think what happens is we put ourselves through so much pressure, so much pressure on ourselves that we've entirely lost so much our sense of humanity and purpose.

And this immense pressure that we put on ourselves, the question is why? To what point, when you don't have a point or an objective or a mission or a vision behind why you're doing what you do,

it's easy to become robotic and like a machine and find yourself in your dream job, but waking up with anxiety and dreading doing what you've done, even though you worked your whole life to get to where you want to go.

And that's why purpose matters because without vision, men, parish, when you don't know why you matter, the pressure, the performance, the achievements, they're meaningless.

And you guys, I don't talk about this often, but I do want you to know that I love coaching on this topic because I've lived this topic. I know what it feels like to be that self pressured.

I know what it feels like to collect accomplishments and feel unworthy still.

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