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Is Confidence Really All You Need To Be Happy in 2025?
As the New Year approaches, there’s no better time to reflect on your purpose, set meaningful goals, and embrace the freedom to create a fulfilling life. In this episode of the Adam Feuerstein Podcast, Adam shares how to develop unshakable confidence to overcome fear, embrace challenges, and achieve your goals. Learn how to harness internal strength, navigate setbacks, and find purpose even in the face of adversity. Through inspiring personal stories, Adam emphasizes the power of courage and the importance of believing in yourself as the key to success.
This episode is the perfect guide for those looking to start 2025 with renewed confidence and a commitment to growth.
Why You Should Watch This Episode:
• Gain practical strategies to build unshakable confidence.
• Learn how to silence negativity and take charge of your goals.
• Discover the power of courage in transforming your life.
Key Topics Covered:
🔥 What Is Unshakable Confidence?
💪 Facing Fear and Overcoming Adversity
🎯 Building the Life You Deserve in 2025
✨ Setting Goals with Courage and Intention
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Confidence can be learned and can be built inside you, even if you're not born with it. So what is unshakable confidence? It isn't arrogance, it isn't the pursuit of perfection. Unshakable confidence is the belief in oneself. It comes from inside of you. It doesn't come from outside of you. Some people may believe in you and some people may discourage you. In fact, most people will likely discourage you. That's why internal confidence is so important.
Speaker 1:When we try to strive for things in life. There's so many people that act against us. It isn't because people are evil. It's because society and human beings as a whole not all human beings, just the majority resist change. If you succeed, that represents change in your life and somehow the way people around you internalize that change makes them afraid. Maybe because you're on your path to be wealthy, maybe because your life circumstances are changing, or maybe because you're surrounded by people who don't have a lot of options in life and you're the one with the courage to pursue options to get yourself into a better place, better than where you are now. I've certainly been there. I think most people have been there in different, varying degrees. Right, everybody's gone through hardship. Everybody's gone through struggle. It doesn't matter what we think of their struggle. It doesn't matter what anybody else thinks of our struggle.
Speaker 1:The bottom line is, when we go out into the world and we try to create our own way, it causes ripples. It affects the people around us and oftentimes it provokes them into hating what we're doing. We hear that term all the time, right Like I've got haters this or haters that. We can't allow those negative influences to detract us from our goals. The goals are hard enough. If every human being in our life was behind us, was supporting us completely and totally, it would still be difficult enough. But we've got to trudge these waters, we've got to make it through to the other side, and the way that we do that is unshakable confidence. And here's what's fascinating about confidence. Stop looking outside. There are no peripheral meaning, outside solutions to existential problems. That's one of the things we've been saying for years, whether it's mom, dad, brother, cousin, son.
Speaker 1:If you're committed to a life where you want to create the opportunity, the freedom that will bring you happiness, the freedom that will bring you, whatever it is you want the freedom to pursue, well, you're going to cause ripples. You're going to have change in your life, and that change may not always be reflected in a positive way by the people around you. Well, you're going to cause ripples. You're going to have change in your life, and that change may not always be reflected in a positive way by the people around you. I honestly can't count the number of people who either directly, subtly or completely indirectly suggested that I had it coming when I filed my bankruptcy. They were so excited to see somebody they were so jealous of fall.
Speaker 1:When we maintain unshakable courage the courage to get back up after we fall down that's when the opportunity opens up for our worst day. What we think is our worst day to later on, when we keep moving forward, creates the chance for us to look back and decide, understand and finally have a grasp on what really happened that day. And what may have happened is this is the best day of your life, no matter how horrible it felt while you were going through it. It's courage that gets us there. It's courage that we pull from inside ourselves, that we need nothing from anybody outside to have the courage to make a choice. The courage to make a decision, the courage to take whatever life we have and alter it, to let the version of ourselves we're living today die so that we can be reborn into a new version. Now, that's not just for religion, that's for goals, it's for achievement, for accomplishment, for money, for business, for friends, for community impact, for influence. Whatever it is that you're chasing, whatever it is your purpose requires in order for that purpose to be fulfilled. That's what we're talking about Now.
Speaker 1:Money is an easy one. It's easy because we can measure it. Somebody with a million dollars has more money than somebody with a hundred dollars. Somebody with a hundred million dollars leads a very different lifestyle than somebody who has five hundred thousand dollars. We can associate products, services and lifestyles with dollar amounts. It'll become something easy to talk about, and I can tell you in my own life, having been through bankruptcy, having failed miserably and only to come back and find my way into a situation where things were very favorable, I can tell you the favorable times, the circumstance, the opportunities that you champion to create that environment of you, that version of yourself that is successful, is 10 times, 100 times, a thousand times better than what you're anticipating. The difference between people who achieve it and those who quit, those who are defeated, is courage Unbreakable, unshakable, internally driven courage.
Speaker 1:Even when we pray to God, it isn't God bestowing courage on us. God doesn't come down and inject us with courage, he doesn't pick us up and pat us on the head and brush the dust off, but rather understanding that when we talk to God, when God speaks to us, when God works in our life whatever God you believe in that that truly reminds us that we have purpose, that that Creator of us and all things in this universe has purpose. And when we realize that purpose, we can find so much courage, internal courage. We can find so much courage internal courage not purpose that our boss gives us, our friends give us, even mom, dad, our best friend, wife, lover, whoever, it doesn't matter. We know when we talk to God, we feel the frequency, the vibration, the energy of our purpose and that's what leads us to courage, and courage is what we have to have to get where we want to go.
Speaker 1:I've talked about the homeless gentleman before. I want to reiterate that here on this podcast. I introduced myself to a homeless man and asked him what he does with his laptop and his answer was I'm writing a book about the Constitution of the United States as a social contract in contemporary American culture. That's courage. That is courage. How many times. Do you think a homeless man has told somebody like me that story? And they laughed in his face. He did not hesitate. He told me he was using artificial intelligence to help to assist him in writing this book.
Speaker 1:He later told me in our conversations that concluded. He said well, I also asked AI what a man like me, who's homeless, can do to become a wealthy citizen in a city like Denver, colorado. And he looked at me with confidence. Confidence, it doesn't come from AI. Confidence, it doesn't come from his friends. It certainly doesn't come from his friends. It certainly didn't come from his circumstance. He looked at me from internal, unshakable confidence, with internal, unshakable confidence, and said I'm already on step three.
Speaker 1:It's hard for me to tell that story and not be emotional, because to be in that man's presence, to feel the energy, to feel the lust for life that he has, despite having nothing other than an older laptop and a few bags of clothes, is incredible. I regard him and will honor and cherish the fact that I even knew him or got to have a conversation. I certainly look forward to more conversations, although, based on what he's doing, he may no longer be at that Starbucks because I have a feeling he'll be in a beautiful home soon. But imagine the confidence. Imagine what he had to have deep inside of himself. That's confidence. That is confidence and I envy that confidence. I don't know that I would have that kind of confidence. I don't know that if I was homeless I could look somebody like that in the eye. I would be ashamed Not him, and that's why he'll make it and that's why that story is so emotional for me.
Speaker 1:It's emotional for lots of reasons, but at the core of those reasons is bearing witness to another man's confidence in a circumstance where I know myself would very well be crippling to me. That's the power right. We talk about the situations we're in. Some people listening to this might be in some really bad situations and if a gentleman in that circumstance, a guy who eats the food that the rest of us throw away to survive, can have that kind of confidence, then the rest of us have no excuse. There's no excuse to look in the mirror and bear witness to the person staring back at you and instill confidence in that reflection, to draw confidence from that reflection, because there's a really good chance. If you're listening to this, you probably have more resources than that guy, which means you have all you need.
Speaker 1:When we're born with a purpose, we're given what we need to fulfill that purpose and no matter the situation we find ourselves in, no matter what happens to us, that is always there. It's one of the most durable parts of human existence. The hardest part is making the choice to pursue it and that's where confidence can play the most critical role. And that's where confidence can play the most critical role In those moments, in that one moment, we've got to make a choice. We've got to make that choice without fear. We've got to make that choice without influence, whether it's from people who are trying to negatively influence, detractors or people who have got our back and support us. We have to push all of that away.
Speaker 1:You see all kinds of videos now about disappearing for a year, for six months, and see what happens. You know part of that is emulating the same idea that if you cut the cord on everything, what happens when you face yourself, the mechanism, the benefit to that, the benefit to going through the exercise alone, is what you discover in part is confidence, not from friends, not from comments on Facebook, but from yourself. That confidence that you discover in that moment will carry you wherever it is you need to go. That confidence will keep fear away from the door. It doesn't mean we're never afraid. I'm afraid just as much as anybody is. But we face that fear. We understand that what we're feeling is afraid, and it's largely our confidence that allows us to shift our state from one of fear, from one of wanting a way out, from backing down, but rather into the ability to move through it. No matter how many times we fail, no matter how many times we fall down, there's always an opportunity to fulfill that purpose. It's intrinsic to our existence. That's why we all have access to it.
Speaker 1:So if you're listening to this, I have a dare for you. I dare you to find a time in every day of your life where something shakes you. Even if it's minor, something shakes you and you look to confidence inside yourself. Not motivational videos, not even scripture. Let's do this one completely solo. When something comes up, when there's something in your future, no matter how minor, no matter how major, I challenge you, I dare you to pause for one minute when you feel that recoil effect from fear, that you dig deep enough to find your own independent, unshakable confidence, and then take another look, re-evaluate whatever that thing is. That's got you pinned down in the moment, that's got you hesitating. Practice that, I dare you, and watch what happens. You practice that long enough.
Speaker 1:We'll start talking about intention and writing down goals. And when we write down goals with confidence meaning without fear, goals, and when we write down goals with confidence, meaning without fear, also with that little warm, powerful feeling that we got from practicing our confidence in reflection to fear, see what those look like. You might be very, very, very, very surprised. And if you think for one minute those goals aren't for you, that you can't attain, that you don't deserve it, you didn't come from the right place in time, the right neighborhood, the right family, whatever. Remember my friend at the homeless at Confluence Park. Remember the guy sleeping under a bridge tonight with his laptop tucked inside his jacket so nobody steals it, and what he's doing? Think about that Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, have that thought in your mind and empower yourself. In the meantime, the rest of us will be here and certainly I will be too. Thank you for listening to my podcast today. We'll see you next time.