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 Competence

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.

This is an episode.

I think we all need an episode that I wish I had heard 15 years ago and it's an episode for you is

episode 486. How to stop being so hard on yourself? We're talking about being hard on yourself.

It doesn't work, why it doesn't work,

and how to stop.

Because the reality is that being hard on yourself

might be the very thing that's keeping you stuck.

We think that being hard on ourselves means or driven or we have high standards,

but being too tough on yourself is actually an ineffective approach to any goal you have in life.

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