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 526. Oh, it's an episode we all need that kind and loving reminder to let go of trying to make everyone like you.

Guys, it's like we know this, we learn this in first grade, and it's still hard to remember in your 20s or 30s or 40s or 50s that it's okay if people don't like you.

That's one of the things that side rails are confidence the most, and remember when your confidence is side railed.

Yeah, I mean, I want you to feel confident, but it's the byproduct of confidence that is so critical and core to the way you live your life.

When you are distracted by the things that don't matter and the things that we have no control over, we don't live.

We don't live to the fullest, we don't pursue our potential, we don't have the boldness to go for goals.

We spin our wheels, we overthink, we make things three times harder than they need to be, and we probably even for massively achieving, because most of you listening are high achievers.

You're wired like me, you're constantly doing, doing, doing, but I know that you know this. You have more in you.

There is potential for more, but you're getting in your own way because you're distracted, worrying about what people are saying about you.

Worrying about whether you should go be bolder, put yourself out there and really go for it, or what are they going to say?

What are they going to say if you do something different?

What are they, the famous they, what are they going to say when you become really successful?

What are they going to say when you start changing your standards?

And wanting to make everyone like you is, it's natural. However, it can be standing in your way, the thing, standing in your way, of reaching your fullest potential.

Being accepted and respected by others can create this empowering sense of validation and belonging.

But here's the thing, it's really important you ask yourself at what cost.

So it's time to recognize that trying to make everyone want you can actually be counterproductive when not managed properly.

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