Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Today's episode is here to inspire you to live your best life today.

Stories are one of the most powerful tools we have to inspire us.

Help us see the world differently and take action towards our dreams.

And here is one that I love.

As someone in the public profession, you know, my job is to be entertaining and be confident and in every step that I take and in every move that I make but I think recognizing that confidence is not something

we are born with it's a skill it's like you know it's a muscle almost if you think of it like going to the gym and you know to to have

muscles and to be in shape you got to work at it just like the vocal cords people the greatest musicians in the world they use you know their their vocal cords they do rias like we call it in Hindi but which is warm-ups and stuff like that. So confidence to me is like that.

You start using that at a very small level.

Every day life, you know, when you're in school, there were times when I was in school where I used to take the other

hallway because I didn't want to bump into someone else when I started high school by the time

I was in 11th grade I was walking in the middle of the hallway and that's the same person but I think that in

any profession or any aspect of life confidence is perception is reality most people believe that right know that how is When I wake up in the morning I take time in the bathroom like I shower I will you know pick the outfit that I'm feeling today I will you know sort of doing my makeup and my hair sort of helps me or my skin care routine actually

Night helps me be sort of introspective otherwise through the day. I'm very erratic. I have you know multiple balls in the air

professionally I'm doing a lot of things I'm always behind on time I'm always playing catch up

so at the end of the night in the beginning of the day I really give myself some silence. I play music and I put my creams on and I really think about what the day is going to be like and how my first step outside of the room is going to be.

When I take that first step outside my safe space, it sets the tone for my day.

So I try not to have it be erratic or scary or like, you know, if I'm late and if I'm running, that always sets the tone for my energy through the day. So I try to really, you know, start my day on the tone I want to have and the confidence I want to

have and at every given step during the day I remind myself of the things I have instead of the things I don't have.

Insecurity comes from a lot of it sometimes I think comes from, oh my gosh, I don't have this,

it's not good enough, or I'm not good enough for

particular scenario or a particular situation or you know we start judging ourselves and this was another lesson actually an activity that my mom and I used to do is we used to count our blessings and you know me and my husband do it too whenever we're feeling crazy because our schedules are insane you're you're always in different parts of the world.

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