Hello? What's up? Going live here. This is exciting through the app. Just waiting to see if I get a notification that I'm live, but I might just jump into this here . All right. Let's get started. So I want to share about something that happened yesterday. I was talking to a friend who was an executive life coach, executive coaching, leadership coaching, and I just was struck by how confident this guy is in what he does. He's not arrogant. He is humble, but he's confident in what he is selling. And it made me realize that that is probably the thing that I've battled with the most in starting a new business is the confidence factor of it.
And then I really thought back to like, when we buy something, when you are buying something, okay, let's say you're going to buy something at a store or you're buying a car or whatever, you're not actually being sold on the product. You're being sold on the confidence level that that person has in the product and just their confidence about it in general. So think back to a purchase you've made that you felt just like, wow, this person is just on fire for this particular product. And I just, I don't know what it is about them, but I just know that when I walk out of here, I have to have this thing.
And I remember back to when I used to work in sales, one of the things that made me successful in sales is because I was really confident in I'm in doing sales. And I really, truly believed in the product that I was selling. So I realized that this fake it till you make it. I've never actually liked that phrase because I consider myself to be a really genuine person and I never want to fake anything. I can't stand fake people. But that is actually a really good life principle for selling yourself, right?
I've been going to a lot of networking events for entrepreneurs and my confidence shines through in what I do. Somebody's going to want to partner with me. Somebody's going to want to build a relationship with me because of the confidence factor that I have, not necessarily even what I am actually selling. So I really just decided I'm going to adopt that phrase fake it till you make it and go about every day with that in my head because it's not me being fake. It's me basically saying I'm going to have the level of confidence that I need to have right now that I don't quite have yet.
That's what I'm faking is the confidence in what I'm doing or what I'm selling. Not the, not the fact that I'm being fake and disingenuous, but I'm going to fake it till I make it with the confidence factor because this guy I was talking to was so confident in what he does that it made me want to work with him and maybe want to like bless him financially, all sorts of stuff. And that's really what selling people in this world these days is confidence. So I would encourage you to try this fake it till you make it mentality as well.
I would love to know how it goes for you guys too. Is there something that you believe faking till you making fake it till you make it? Is there something that that phrase can apply to in your life that isn't disingenuous? Maybe, maybe not, but I'm going to adopt that phrase myself and I'll let you know how it goes as I continue to fake the confidence that I don't quite have in certain areas of my life. And we'll see how it goes. So I'll check back with you about how that goes as I repeat that mantra every day in my head.
Thanks for joining me today guys.
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