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. This is episode 5-23, where we're talking about the leaving with perseverance when your goals feel out of reach.

Because there's going to be time when you are discouraged. There's going to be time when your goals feel very like they're getting further away from you, the more effort you put in, where you feel like it should be easier and you start doubting

your potential or the possibility of what's ahead. And this episode is going to help. I want to teach you how to maintain belief for long periods of time, how to double down on encouragement when you're discouraged, how to stay motivated and kind to yourself when things aren't working out,

so we get some really good content to go through today. But in general, just know this, in our fast paced society, it's all too easy to feel like we're constantly falling behind.

Whether it's striving for the perfect body or working towards that corner office, it seems that we set untanable goals for ourselves and then be rigid ourselves when we don't reach that.

But first and foremost, let me correct that. They are not unattainable goals. They're just goals that sometimes require more work than we originally think is required.

And so we, or we think about a goal and we don't and preemptively anticipate the challenges that will arise as a result. But what if I told you that you could achieve anything you put your mind to with perseverance and a positive attitude you really, really can do anything.

So I just, even if you don't list, listen past right now, please know this. Don't give up on your dreams. Keep fighting them for fighting for them, no matter how hard they seem.

This podcast episode is going to help you to keep your belief going when the going gets tough because what happens is when we are discouraged guys.

We start telling ourselves a story and inner narratives that make us self question, we self question our potential, we self, we question God's plan, we question our, our perseverance capability.

We question if we're going down the right path, if we have the talent for it, if we were made for it. And when you start questioning something, when you start doubting if you're able to do it, it is a, it is a self fulfilling prophecy.

You start creating what you believe and what you're thinking. So if you don't think you can do it or you're doubting if you can, you will make that happen. It will become true.

Eventually what you think becomes what we say in the coaching world effective truth. So if you don't think that you can do it, you are going to find ways to get in your own way.

And you won't be able to do it. If you so tell yourself this is too hard, it should be easier. It will feel even harder and the effective truth that we come your reality is that it will be too hard.

What you say to yourself is so critical. It is so, so critical, my friends.

And you might be saying things like, but I've been at it for so long, Trish, but I'm not just starting. I've been at it for years. We have to be honest with ourselves as well.

I was just talking to a client who said, you have Trish, I've been trying to lose weight for years. And I said, I love you too much to allow you to lie to yourself because you've tried for months and then you given up and then you try again and then you give up and then you've tried again and then right when it got hard, you stopped.

But to tell yourself, well, I've been trying for years when really maybe you've been trying for months spread out over a series of years is more accurate.

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