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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, your host of The Confidence Podcast, and you're listening to episode 475.

Man, it's a good topic as we go into the new year. First off, I hope you had an absolutely beautiful Christmas, so Merry Christmas.

We're going to talk today about how to stop dreading things, and I mean dread in the little ways and in the big ways.

You're dreading a big deadline, or maybe you're just dreading having a conversation, that's important, or you're dreading asking your boss for what you want.

When you dread things, those things bottom line, they become harder.

Dread, I want to propose to you today that it's just an emotion, that it doesn't have to be something that you grow into something that is going to be preventing you from achieving what you want.

It's an emotion that results from a mismanaged thought that ultimately leads to procrastination and avoidance.

And here's the thing, you will always be disempowered if you show up from a place that originates from procrastination or avoidance.

The action you take, even when you start taking action, is already tarnished.

It's better than nothing, it's better than doing nothing, but your self-concept with which you show up is lesser.

This podcast episode, what we're doing and coaching on today, we're going to talk about how to identify what you're avoiding, identifying when dread is showing up, and then how to start making those tasks, and those important things in your life easier to accomplish, and more enjoyable to do.

Maybe you're dreading, if you're listening live, and it's about to be the new year, 2022, maybe you're dreading starting something new.

We dread change, we dread risk, we dread looking vulnerable.

But I want to help this concept in your life, I want to set you free by just looking at it as a thing.

When I feel dread, I now just look at my brain and go, well that's interesting.

What are you actually dreading here? It's an invitation, dread is an invitation to curiosity.

It doesn't have to be a problem, it's just an opportunity to figure out what is going on deeper in my thoughts.

And it's an opportunity for me to show up to be a friend to myself, for me to say, hey, like nothing's gone wrong here.

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