When I Faked My Confidence

I knew from the first yoga class I took that I'd be a yoga teacher someday. I felt it in my bones, my soul, deep down, in the places that don't have words. I wasn't sure how or when, but I knew it would happen. 

​“Faking your confidence is powerful” 

- Mel Robbins

I asked every yoga teacher I came across where they did their teacher training. Most said they’d done their training in a month-long program far from home. That sounded too intense and disruptive to my life. I prefer to pace myself and kept my eyes and ears open for the right program for me.

Many, many, many, many, many years later I found a yoga teacher training program that was only 8 weeks long and happened on the weekends and weekday evenings, so I could still go to work. 

Night one of yoga teacher training we all shared why we were there and when it was my turn I shared how I knew someday I’d do this training and that someday was now. 

I didn't realize that I’d alienated a lot of my fellow teacher trainers because I exuded a confidence that they did not possess. 

To be completely truthful I barely practiced teachings outside of the teacher training sessions because I felt like I should just be able to do it (like osmosis or something). I did the journaling and writing assignments, but I wasn't practicing how to teach like everyone else in the training. I was so confident that I thought I didn't need to practice. (Ha!) 

It wasn't until our last class together that I finally learned the entire sequence that we'd been living, breathing, and doing for the past eight weeks! 

My confidence carried me all the way through my teacher training journey even though I didn’t really know what the hell I was doing. 

I decided I would succeed and there wasn't an alternative so my confidence kicked in to make it so.

That’s one of the only times I succeeded at faking my confidence. I attribute it to my belief being unshakable, that this was where I was supposed to be and what I was supposed to do. There was no doubt in my mind that I would succeed. 

Journaling Prompt:

What happened when you faked your confidence? (and if you haven’t done that before, imagine it happening and write what it would feel like) 

I’m in the midst of another my-belief-is-so-strong-that-confidence-keeps-kicking-in

for the Kickstarter campaign of my book, New Beginnings: Transform Your Life Through Journaling. 

There are only 15 days left to my campaign and as I write this I’m at 6% of my funding goal. Kickstarter is all or nothing, if I don’t make my goal then I don’t get any funding and my book doesn’t become real. 

That’s pretty scary and at the same time I feel confident that I’m going to make my goal because you’re here. You believe in me, probably more than I believe in myself because that’s how our brains work. Self-doubt is always higher than your doubt in others. 

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You can get my book in paperback or electronic (that you read on all of your devices). Both the physical book and the electronic version, come with the companion journal so you can transform your life through journaling. 

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Part Memoir and Part How-to, the book, New Beginnings takes you on a journey through Kerstin's life and gives you Thoughtful Journaling™ prompts to spark your own growth journey. 

Discover your inner truth, connect with your intuition, and cultivate the self-confidence that's in you. You are a powerful being and your words matter.

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