So normally when we do a greatest hits episode it's something that I released a couple of years ago.

But this week we're actually releasing a podcast that I only put out a few months ago,

but it was so popular and so powerful that I really thought it was time to bring it back

even though it's still a little freshly baked. And that is because confidence,

happiness, and self-sifty are pretty much the keys to a life well lived, I think.

Yep, you need to take risks, you need to be comfortable with negative emotions, absolutely.

But there is also something to be said

for knowing how to create more happiness for yourself. And happiness isn't just

the kind of flood of dopamine in your brain when something really exciting or novel happens.

I think true sustained happiness is really about living life on your own terms and feeling good about how you show up in the world.

And that is why I think confidence has so much to do with creating a relationship of safety with ourselves.

That just means being able to talk to ourselves

in a way that is kind and compassionate and motivating instead of critical and cruel and

destructive. It means being able to feel brave enough to take risks because we

are supporting ourselves and encouraging ourselves and we are there to pick ourselves

up when we fall instead of beat the shit out of ourselves when we're down.

So these things really work together in powerful ways and that is why we are re-releasing this episode from June.

If you didn't listen to it then, you're going to want to listen to it now, and if you did listen to

it, you should listen to it again, because you are going to learn something deeper you're

going to see things in a new way what you learned the first time you listen to it is

going to interact with your new experiences and thoughts since then and you're

going to get an even greater, deeper, more interesting

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