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 542, and this is a topic that I get requested on all the time.

And it's how to be more consistent, how to follow through, how to do what you say you're going to do, how to, well, have follow through and consistency, being that person who always follows through.

And here's why it's so critical because inconsistency creates self-distrust. And when you have that going on unmanaged, unmonitored, unspoken back to, it's easy to fall into the trap of discouragement.

And discouragement is the enemy of our progress. Discouragement destroys hope. Discouragement derails us for moving forward in the way that we know that we can.

But knowing what you want to do and not doing it creates a sense of hopelessness. And when you feel this, it feels like there's no point in trying.

It's so easy to get overwhelmed with the bigger picture and then ultimately your own thoughts, your own words, your attitudes, create this lack of consistency and follow through and thereby failure in all of us and you find yourself wondering why you're inconsistent.

But here's the deal. It's not, I don't need you to to white knuckle yourself to consistency. I need you to change your thoughts because when you change your thoughts, you'll change your outcome.

You can decide today to become someone who doesn't struggle with consistency or with follow through and as a result, your confidence will skyrocket and we're going to talk about exactly that.

More specifically on today's show, we're going to talk about and spend a couple minutes on why you're not consistent and how that is negatively affecting your confidence.

I'm going to give you the top five ways you're not being consistent and then five ways to become more consistency, more consistent.

I'm going to share with you the character traits of consistency and talk to you about how to become someone who follows through, who does the work, who shows up for themselves and who is an action taker.

We spoke a lot in last week's episode about being an action taker. This is that, but just repeat it.

So if you can believe if you go back to episode 541, you heard at the end, we had 15 power phrases for massive action.

And then also a few simple ones. I think I got six simple ones here. I am an action taker. I am a dream chaser. I am a world changer. I am a different maker.

I am significant. I am loved. I will take action. I am going to decide and then do something.

And so what is consistency? It is the willingness to do things over and over and over until the results happen.

So what happens is we get discouraged. We give up on the results before there's even a chance for them to be activated.

And if you're feeling discouraged, I just first and foremost want to remind you of a couple of things. You can do hard things.

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