Quick Cut: S2E195 Developing Your Self-Belief
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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The beliefs we hold about ourselves can either motivate us to achieve success or provide the excuses we tell ourselves to justify a failure, or worse, not bothering to try at all. Many people feel the consequences of low self-belief, including arrogance, criticizing others or simply trying too hard. In this episode, Brian Buffini delves into the topic of self-belief and offers tips to help you improve your belief in yourself, your abilities and your future. You’ll learn how insecurity can sabotage your dreams, the role your past experiences and other people’s feedback have on shaping your beliefs and the two affirmations to repeat when you feel your belief is faltering. When we believe in ourselves and our abilities, we have the confidence to rise above the challenges we face and achieve our goals. If you struggle with self-belief—and let’s face it, who doesn’t—this episode is for you.
Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:
“If we believe in ourselves, we can have belief in others.” — Brian Buffini
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.” — Max Maltz
“Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self-esteem. That means, ‘I feel so low that instead of picking myself up, I have to cut others down.’ Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.” — Pope Francis
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” — C.S. Lewis
“We need stress to live; we need resistance to grow.” — Brian Buffini
“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.” –Steve Furtick
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills and the uses these skills to accomplish his goals.” — Larry Bird
“Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: The future can be better than the present and I have the power to make it so.” — David Brooks
“When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.” — Brian Tracy
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Baffini, founder of America's largest business coaching company. |
| 0:10.0 | Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes. |
| 0:15.0 | Over the past 25 years I guess I've been involved in the coaching and training and speaking side of things. |
| 0:24.0 | The number one thing I see that plagues people is a self-doubt or the consequences of not having |
| 0:29.7 | a sufficient self-belief. |
| 0:31.8 | So first of all we're going to talk about and ask you a question |
| 0:34.2 | what do you believe about yourself? Next we're going to talk about what do you believe |
| 0:37.2 | about your abilities and thirdly we're going to talk about what you believe about |
| 0:41.0 | your future. Belief according to Mr Webster is a state of mind in which trust or |
| 0:46.2 | confidence is placed in some person or something. So the person we're going to |
| 0:51.3 | talk about the thing we're going to talk about today is us. |
| 0:54.0 | Because if it starts with us, then we can have belief in others. |
| 0:56.5 | So what are some of the consequences of this lack of self-belief? |
| 1:00.8 | Well first and foremost, it shows up in low self-esteem. It shows up in all walks of life. |
| 1:07.0 | It's proven to show up in many, many interpersonal conflicts. |
| 1:12.0 | It shows up in poor relationships, it shows up in |
| 1:15.0 | poor performance on the job. In fact Max Maltz now Maximilian Maltz wrote |
| 1:19.8 | Psychosiburnetics one of the most powerful personal growth books of the 1970s. |
| 1:25.0 | And he said that low self-esteem is like driving through life with your handbrake on. |
| 1:30.0 | Have you ever felt like you weren't quite fully able to engage to the degree that your gifts and your talents and your abilities and your effort was desiring to? |
| 1:38.5 | So I will tell you how I recognize self-esteem in people, low self-esteem. |
| 1:43.2 | First of all, I'll see it in the form of people |
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