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 there, it's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to the Confidence Podcast. This is episode number 479.

Oh, it's a topic I love, love, love. We're talking about how to stop settling and how to stop playing small.

Nothing is more tragic than giving up on yourself. And often this is done in subtle ways in life that we don't even realize are happening like settling.

And you don't even realize you're settling, you just become complacent, or you think small, or you drift, or you delay.

I don't know if you ever realized, but settling is often, we use it in language of delay, I'll decide later, or indecisiveness, or confusion, or telling ourselves it's not the right time, or we're not ready.

And without realizing, without having the intent of settling, you do settle. This episode is going to help you figure out if you're settling, or putting up with less than you deserve.

And the reasons why we settle, and then really what to do to start creating positive change in this area.

Here's what I love. I love that you don't have to settle or play small anymore. God put so much potential in you.

So it's time to water that and really let it bloom as always. You can get the full show notes at Trish Blackwell dot com for slash 479 for the episode number.

I'm going to be coaching you today on how to know if you're settling and putting up with less than you deserve. So this is, we're going to be talking in the context of settling in your own life, but also settling in relationships or settling in a career, settling in a job, settling within the boundaries and the constraints of what you think is available to you.

Most of the time we settle or we allow things that are below us and unworthy of us because we don't know our worth.

When you know your worth and you know how an impact you have to make on this world. And if you haven't yet picked up my book straight in your crown, it talks all about worth and worthiness and how to not just feel loved by God, but feel like deeply purposed by God and delighted and by God.

And hey, that book is still on sale this month. So go to Amazon or go to Trish Blackwell dot com for slash crown. The book is called straight in your crown.

But we often put up, we often settle or play small because we don't think we deserve more. I'm going to coach you and teach you the four reasons why we settle and they are fear failure, fear of disappointment, fear of unworthiness and fear of embarrassment.

I'm going to give you walk you through two sets of things to start and stop to help you help break the any patterns of settling and then what to do next to start creating changes, start creating momentum, start activating your courage because settling is easy.

It's what the world does. It's not only average playing small being safe doing the normal thing. It's what most people do, but I can tell you what if you're listening to a podcast like this, you are not most people and I need you to know that.

Okay, let's highlight our review of the week. This is from Amy, Joe, see girl. I made this into an image because you made me so happy when I read this review. She says this, the COC and Trish's podcast are the most positive, inspiring faith based motivation. A person can find on the internet.

Like, let's just drop the mic there. Girl, thank you. She says, I've been listening to Trish for a year and a half. I'm a member of the College of Confidence or the COC and God is using Trish to take me from feeling lost, insecure and very down about myself to becoming somebody who's grounded in faith in God and his word and who I am as his child.

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