LISTEN TO YOURSELF UNIT 1 LESSON 2

You will learn how to examine points of self- doubt in your lives and begin to think about how you can overcome those doubts and translate them into feelings of self- confidence.

LISTEN TO YOURSELF AND FIND WHAT YOU LOVE Learning to listen to yourself is one of the hardest parts of defining your own road in life. If you can compare shedding the Noise to a pool filter, listening to yourself is like playing with magnets.

When two magnets are matched up correctly, there is an invisible force that pulls them together. When they are out of sync with each other, that same force pushes them apart. It is the same when you are doing something that you love – you can feel the force that attracts you to it, even if you don’t know why.

Listening to yourself is about looking for all the times in your life when it feels like magnets are pulling towards each other. Those are the things that will ultimately give meaning to your life and make you happy.

OVERCOMING SELF-DOUBT One hurdle that is often in the way of listening to yourself is not feeling confident in who you are. We call this SELF DOUBT.

Whether these self-doubt feelings come from others or from yourself – it is important to develop the confidence needed to eliminate those feelings and make decisions that reflect what is important to you.

While self-doubting feelings might seem like something only you are experiencing, it is important to remember that even the most famous of talented athletes or movie star or well known musicians have struggled with self-doubt. By shedding the Noise, trusting your gut feelings and listening to yourself, you’ll find that self-doubt is much easier to conquer.

One of the best ways to defeat those self-doubting feelings is to turn that doubt into self-confidence.

HOW DO WE DO THIS? Whenever you have a negative message pop into your head, you will want to make an effort to replace that Noise with a positive message (you have to learn how to change the way you think). By replacing negative messages with positive ones, the conversations with your own head will become much more optimistic.

With optimism comes self-confidence, and with self-confidence, listening to yourself becomes a whole lot easier.

EXERCISE 3 Typically when you listen to music, you get to listen to what you want to hear – the music that makes you feel good. You want the same to be true when you are listening to yourself. Much like building a musical playlist that you enjoy hearing.

Create a “life playlist” to live by. Construct your list with positive words to combat the moments when you encounter self-doubt as well as constructive messages you can give yourself when you are feeling pressure from the Noise. In a word document – list your “life playlist.” Write down ten positive statements that will help you encounter self-doubt. Then write a paragraph on how your playlist will help you get through all the Noise in your life.