You're listening to the Confidence Podcast, your favorite coaching podcast

ooze in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take

action on your dreams.

I'm 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. harder. or 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.

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