#1 KEY - DECISION

Hi it’s Michael Hutchison.

Welcome! to another SOS! message on being confident and Thriving, in Turbulent Times.

Because of all the love, and the appreciation you have been sending, I decided to send you more personal coaching from me.

People are asking me, Michael, can you share some more actionable ideas and strategies on how we can be more confident right now?

Let’s rock and roll: this is 5 Keys to Having More Confidence in Your Life spread out over 5 short videos.

Number one key to being confident, Decide.

Make a Decision. You need no reason, whatsoever, to be more confident. Just make the decision to be confident, you don’t need a reason. You don’t need 1, 5 or 50 people to tell you that you’re amazing, or you’re beautiful, or we love you.

You just have to say,

“You know what, today I’m going to hold my head up high. Today, I’m going to give myself some extra credit. Today, I’m just going to be confident. I’m going to walk into this webinar room. I’m going to sit tall, I’m going to act as if I were an incredibly confident person for no other reason than that’s my intention right now.”

That’s it. That’s the power of intention. It’s the power that you get to choose how you want to feel. Every day. We tend to over complicate these things. We think we have to have, some big long psychological story and build-up, to suddenly one day wake up and be more confident. Newsflash: No, you don’t. You simply have to wake up and say, “Today, I’m going to be confident. I got this.”

Have you ever had a day where you just crushed it? Where you got so much done you were like wow! At the end of the day you said: I was on fire!

That happened because you woke up in the morning and you said, “I’m going to get some stuff done today.” You had the intention to be a productive human being that day. So, why not set the intention to be a confident human being today and every day?

It begins with you simply deciding to be a confident person. Look, I changed my life when I did that. I realize, and this was way back in my University days, for me. I just thought, “I want to be a confident person, how is this going to happen? Do I have to wait until I’m 50, after I’ve achieved everything, made some money or maybe people like me?” Forget about it! Get over yourself Michael.

I said, You get over your stuff when you realize that real confidence is simply having the ability to genuinely express who you truly are and to pursue things that you truly desire. That’s confidence. Confidence doesn’t have to mean you’re, like me, Superman who is “Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!” “Look! Up in the sky!” “It’s…” Ok, just kidding, I’m just making sure you are paying attention.

By the way, was that confident or what?!

Confidence means you’re being who you are, authentically, for no other reason. No one gave you permission. You just decided to be who you are. You decided to chase your dreams—that’s confidence. Believing in yourself and where you’re going, that’s confidence.

It doesn’t take a lot of magic. From that decision to be confident, just because. Just because you want to feel that sense of strength in your own bodies, that sense of energy and joy of expressing who you are and chasing what you want. Everything rolls from there.

Are you with me? All good?!

Remember: You've got to have confidence, an internal guidance inside of you that decides, I believe in my myself. I believe in my ability, to figure things out.

Okay my friends. I hope you enjoyed this SOS! message. In the meantime, thank you! for sharing these lessons with everybody you love.

Continue to choose to protect your health; and care deeply about your mind, your body, your heart and your spirit right now.

Thank you for listening!

I'll talk to you soon.