Zen Habits Podcast

S1 Ep09 - Building Self-Trust

Oct 11, 2023

26:06

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Topics covered in this podcast include the significance of building self-trust, embracing growth through making mistakes, and navigating challenges with trust. The speaker shares personal experiences, including leading a retreat in Costa Rica, and encourages listeners to take action based on self-trust.

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Developing trust in ourselves is essential for personal growth and success, allowing us to navigate uncertainty, expand our horizons, and approach tasks with ease.

Trust is built through practice and engaging with new experiences, even if it means falling down sometimes.

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Developing Trust in Ourselves

Developing trust in ourselves is important for personal growth and success. Trust allows us to step into the unknown and take on new challenges with confidence. It enables us to navigate through the messy process of learning and be unafraid of making mistakes. Trusting ourselves also allows us to do things with more ease and save energy by reducing control freak tendencies and overthinking. By developing trust, we can expand our limits and take action towards creating the life we want. Trust is built through practice and engaging with new experiences, even if it means falling down sometimes.

Introduction

3min

Building Self-Trust

13min

Developing Self-Trust and Working with Intuition

2min

Building Self-Trust

5min

Building Self-Trust and Expanding Our Capacity

3min

What could you create in your life if you had more self-trust? What would it feel like to have more self-trust, and how do we cultivate more of it?

In this episode, we will talk about why cultivating more self-trust is essential for going deeper into our meaningful work, where we get stuck in creating more of it, and how we can continue to create more trust in ourselves.

Topics Covered

Leo shares a listener's experience, highlighting the concept that success and failure are part of the process of developing self-trust
How our thoughts and narratives about our actions play a significant role in our self-trust
The process of growth involves stepping into the unknown, making mistakes, and learning from them
Building trust in oneself is essential for taking on new challenges, expanding one's horizons, and approaching tasks with ease
Trust allows individuals to navigate uncertainty and trust that they can handle whatever comes their way
The episode discusses practical examples of building self-trust, such as Leo's experience with writing and speaking on stage
The importance of taking action and not getting stuck in avoidance techniques like excessive planning or seeking external validation
Leo shares his experience of leading a retreat in Costa Rica and how he practiced trust in himself during that process
Encouragement for listeners to ask themselves what they would do if they fully trusted themselves and took action based on that trust