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 538, and whatever brought you here to this show.

Whether it's your first time or your 538 time, I'm so, so happy you're here, especially because what we're talking about today is how to be a happier and more successful person, because let's talk about it. That's really what we want.

We're going to explore strategies today and insights to help you become happier today, not tomorrow, not when you lose 5 pounds, not when you make your first $5,000 in your business today.

Today, and how to feel more successful before you even achieve those successes. I just want your identity to have a shift.

Remember that one of the core foundational principles of confidence is to know who you are.

You get to decide who you are and who you are becoming, and how you identify effects so much of that.

And even if you just start identifying as a happy person, start identifying as a successful person, and then shutting down every thought that's going to come up and back it up and give you, well, not yet.

Or we're, you know, but not in comparison to blah, blah, blah. You guys, if you stop the thought and just start claiming it.

This is not name and claim it. It sounds like it. But if you just start guarding your mind as if it's your full-time job because it is.

It's your responsibility to clean your thoughts. It's your responsibility to realize that your brain is the most brilliant machine.

Talk about we're impressed with AI technology right now. Your brain runs circles around that.

Y'all, but we have to lean in and we have to do our due diligence to take care of something, to take ownership for and responsibility of our thoughts.

And you know my story. If you've been listening, if you haven't, I used to think I was just a lost cause. My thoughts were all over the place.

So much so that I didn't think therapists could help me. The sports psychologist can help me. I literally thought, well, I guess I'm always going to struggle. I'm always going to suffer.

And I get to tell you that if I can change my thoughts, you can. Now I was happy on the outside, but on the inside, desperately unhappy.

I want you to know that whatever the language is in your brain, you can change it. And if you haven't yet listened to last week's episode, the voice in your head, how to change it, how to be happier, how to make it more powerful and positive.

Go back and listen to that episode. You can get it by scrolling back. And the podcast app you're listening to or going to Trish Blackwell dot com four slash five thirty seven.

But today we're going to talk about really hard how to start feeling happier right now.

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