Good morning and welcome to the Increased Reimpact podcast. Justin Suitt here, episode 1,736.

Today we are talking about competence. Not confidence, but competence. I'll never forget.

A professional athlete once told me that he used to chase confidence, but he ended up realizing that chasing confidence is like chasing a feeling.

It's like chasing love.

You can't force it.

You just need to create an environment where it happens.

And one way to create an environment where you become more confident is to be more competent.

Now what I mean by that is being so dedicated to your craft,

being willing to put in the work,

being willing to do everything you can,

to have complete dedication to your craft that you know,

no matter how you feel,

no matter what the situation is, no matter who you're

competing against, no matter when you're competing, where you're competing, how you're

competing, you've put in the work to show up when it matters most. You have sharpened your

axe, you have sharpened your tools, you have sharpened your mind. And you have confidence in the fact that

you are prepared. So today, my invitation to you is to increase your competence by being dedicated

to your craft. Embracing the boredom of consistency. Do everything you can to keep an open mind to learn

to get better, to get sharper. You might not feel like it. It might be boring. You might have to

work on things that are outside of your comfort zone, but it's worth it. And it's the only way you can be truly competent at what you do.

If you expect to be the best in the world or if you expect to be high performer, you need to do

what high performers do. And high performers, true high performers, not want to be high performers,

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