{"id":2748,"date":"2020-02-14T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2023-10-18T01:18:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T08:18:47","slug":"confidence-takes-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/confidence-takes-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Confident Takes Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>When do you feel most confident?<\/h1>\n<p>Think about it.<\/p>\n<p>I bet you feel most confident when you&#8217;ve familiar with something. When you&#8217;ve done it many times.<\/p>\n<p>The things you feel confident doing, you&#8217;ve been doing for years.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Confidence takes practice. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your confidence grows when you do something over and over.<\/p>\n<h1>Finding confidence<\/h1>\n<p>You may believe you need to find confidence <em>before<\/em> doing challenging things. Things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting a new job<\/li>\n<li>Changing careers<\/li>\n<li>Speaking in public<\/li>\n<li>Ending a relationship<\/li>\n<li>Becoming an artist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>But here&#8217;s the secret.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t wait to find confidence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Courage<\/strong> <\/em>comes before confidence.<\/p>\n<p>The simple truth is you won&#8217;t feel confident when starting something new.<\/p>\n<p>You need to find the courage deep inside of you to do epic things.<\/p>\n<h1>What is courage?<\/h1>\n<p>Courage is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trusting yourself<\/li>\n<li>Overcoming your fears<\/li>\n<li>Expecting failure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You gain confidence by overcoming your fears.<\/p>\n<p>The more challenges you face, the more confident you become.<\/p>\n<p>But first, be courageous \u201dgo for it!\u201d <em>feel the fear and do it anyway<\/em>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When do you feel most confident? Think about it. I bet you feel most confident when you&#8217;ve familiar with something. When you&#8217;ve done it many times. The things you feel confident doing, you&#8217;ve been doing for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[54,53],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mindset","tag-confidence","tag-courage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/blog2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwwLa-Ik","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamiecavanaugh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}