Welcome to the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Now, here's Dave with an intentional mindset minute.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson with another intentional mindset minute,

where I share quick hits from my latest books intentional mindset and

elevate your excellence. We post them on Fridays to help you think right, do right, get better,

and become more. Here's the topic. What are you avoiding? We naturally avoid tasks where we

experience failure, criticism, feel poorly about ourselves, let others down, or produce

poor results. Now, you may not even avoid these situations consciously as your brain,

whose role it is to help you survive causes you to unconsciously dodge those scenarios in

order to preserve and protect you. But rarely do we avoid areas where

we're confident, feel great about what we do, get praised for how we do it, and produce favorable

outcomes. Thus, it can be argued that confidence is a key to consistency. And if you lack consistency

in an area to put in the extra study practice and work on that task so that your brain moves you towards it, where you'll thrive rather than causes avoidance to help you survive. You know,