Were you a giver or a taker?  Were you a contributor or a consumer?  Did you maximize your talents and take the time to expand your comfort zone and become the best version of yourself you possibly could be?

The 2nd step is to understand the difference between self-confidence and being egotistical.  Zig said ego is a terrible disease that negatively affects everyone accept the person with the disease. In other words, nobody likes being around an ego maniac.

I have also documented that negative people who lack confidence think EVERYONE with self confidence is egotistical.  That is simply not true, the truth is they are not able to distinguish the difference.

So how do you develop self-confidence?

My entire entrepreneurial career those who lack self confidence has been bewildering to me.  As some of you know the last couple of months we have been working with a company, Ihub Meta, that was in a 90-day beta testing phase and has recently moved into pre-launch.   We are working with awesome people from all over the United States and the world.

I am shocked at the number of awesome people, those that appear to be value focused, willing to learn, who are beyond capable of performing at a high level in my mind and everyone who knows them, who cannot muster up enough confidence to consistently make themselves do what needs to be done.

Honestly this article and training session below from Mr. Brian Tracy is for them and those like them.  Awesome people who need to be able to develop enough confidence to get into the market place and not miss this unique, once in a lifetime, opportunity.

The only conclusion I can come to is they have some deep seeded programming from childhood that is preventing them from fulfilling their full potential.  This has probably held them back for years, if they are ever going to identify it and deal with it the time is now.  I also have to accept the fact that some people are comfortable living is a state of lack.  A few years ago when I wrote the book Change Your Financial Mindset and Create Wealth the idea that some people are comfortable in state of lack or mediocrity never really occurred to me.

Over the  past 90 days, I have personally done everything and said everything I know to do and say.  I have talked about monitoring their self-talk, planning their work and working their plan, deciding WHY, visualization, and understanding the ground floor only happens once. We have promoted the heck out of Mel Robbins 5-4-3-2-1— Go system.    I am at my wits end and it is hard for me to accept the fact that some people I truly love and care about are going to let lack of self-confidence cause them to miss this unique opportunity.

So this morning, I went through tons of old journals, and training list, articles, audios and videos asking myself, what is the best deep work training on self-confidence?  I wasn’t looking for motivation, or a great article on the topic of self-confidence, I was looking for strong, deep, psychology.

I decided the best deep work I was aware of on self-confidence was a training from Brian Tracy.   Brian’s content is fabulous, it is well referenced, but myself and others must be in certain mindset to listen to  him.  His monotone delivery, just doesn’t do it for me, unless I am very interested in the subject, he may just put me to sleep.

The challenge is those who lack self-confidence rarely want to admit it or study the subject.  They tend to blame their lack of being in the market place and making themselves do what they need to do, to lack of time, spouse support, children’s activities, family responsibilities, and the list goes on and on.

The truth is, we have people on our team who have very limited time, an unsupportive spouse, responsibilities with their families, and children’s activities who are consistently in the market place making it happen every week.  It is a matter of priorities and goals.

The people on the leader board in our company didn’t land there by accident for most it was a goal, something they get up thinking about, and working towards daily.   They don’t work when it is convenient, getting in the market place has been a priority for them.   They understand where they are at this time and place in history, and being in the market place each week and growing their business and income is a priority.  They have the self-confidence to make it happen

In this training Brian Tracy covers all of that, the person that edited this training must understand the jab at Brian has never been on the quality of his content but his monotone delivery.  They have gone in and jazzed his seminar up adding new video clips etc, so I am hoping that those that are ready for true self evaluation and want to increase their confidence immediately  will take this training and Brian’s self-talk references to heart.

Don’t watch this seminar passively, it takes focus, and I suggest you have your journal or a note pad.  The content is solid, and desperately needed by many.

Brian Tracy is the real deal, a business and personal development legend that is still practicing his craft daily.  He shows no signs of slowing down.  He was born in a rough Canadian neighborhood in January of 1944.

When I think about the great influences in my life Brian is definitely in the Top 5.

He is a very refined and elegant speaker.  Every word out of his mouth is wisdom. I don’t recall him ever making a joke and some people feel is delivery is too polished and robotic. However, truth is truth, wisdom is wisdom, and Brian Tracy is someone all personal development students should study.

Brian share the foundational mindsets, values, work ethic and core principles that all self-made people understand.

Brian Tracy simply tells it like it is.  We all have the opportunity to internalize wisdom of the age’s principles, or not, it is up to us.

Brian Tracy has been very instrumental in helping many entrepreneurs really understand the importance of setting goals.  Brian doesn’t ignore the numbers.  He does a lot of research.  He says even in today’s world where every personal development speaker on the planet talks about the importance of setting goals, only 7% of the world’s population has goals.

What about you?

In recent years Brian has talked a lot about HABIT.  He says courage is a habit as well as fear.

I recently hear this quote from Brian Tracy and I thought it was genius.

If you are only working eight hours a day, you are working to survive.  Every hour over eight hours each day is working towards becoming excellent in your craft.

By natural instinct, people want to stay comfortable.  He says high achievers have instinctively re-programmed their mindsets to develop a sense of urgency. They get things done like their life depends on it!

Brian underscores the importance of developing a reputation as someone who does things FAST! Furthermore, according to Brian, “People who make a commitment to EXCELLENCE first and foremost become EXCELLENT!”  “Excellence yields opportunities!”  “When we do things in an average way – we don’t get anything out of it. When we do things excellently – we get everything out of it!”

Brian Tracy been one of the most influential business and personal development mentors in history.  Brian’s key principles and common-sense approach was confirmation for me in my early entrepreneurial endeavors.

I never take for granted how fortunate I was to start my entrepreneurial journey prior to the internet.  It saddens me to think that many may never have the opportunity to discover Brian Tracy because they are buying the hype from some silver tongued get rich quick dude who still has his day job.

I so appreciate Brian Tracy and the other LEGENDS we feature here at Pure Motivation for confirming Wisdom of the Ages Success principles and the pivotal role they have played in my own journey.

Being in a position to personally express my wholehearted gratitude to Brian (and to others) through this website is an honor and a pleasure. Brian and I spoke together in California about twenty years ago with Mark Victor Hansen and several other speakers at a weekend boot camp.

We had a short exchange and I expressed to him what an impact his audio CD’s and books had had on my journey.  I know he hears this every day, but my personal development library is full of Brian Tracy material and yours should be too.

Brian Tracy is regularly characterized as iconic, epic, legendary – all true, all well-earned, and well-deserved however in our brief encounter he seemed very down to earth, humble, gracious, human being.

He frequently talks about his wife, children, and grandchildren in interviews I have heard over the years.  If seems very clear that he understands the importance of family and the 7 key areas of life.  It appears to me he focuses on what is important and ignores everything else.

Today Brian Tracy is the CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company that specializes in the training of individuals and organizations.

Throughout his 40+ year career, Brian has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada and 70 other countries worldwide. He is the top selling author of over 70 books, including Eat That Frog, a New York Times Best Selling book. In addition to this, he has written and produced more than 500 audio and video learning programs, including the worldwide, best-selling Psychology of Achievement, which has been translated into more than 28 languages.

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