If you don't believe in yourself, then nobody will ever believe in you.

When I was young, I had extremely low self-esteem. I didn't believe that I could be anyone or do anything important. As a result, I did what other people said I should do. I was constantly seeking approval and validation.

It's hard to believe in yourself if you spend all of your time trying to live up to other people’s expectations. 

Now is the time to transform fear and self-doubt into unstoppable confidence and self-esteem.

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Do you believe in yourself? 

This question is not meant to patronize you. Rather, it's only meant to empower you. If you have self-doubt, great! That means that you are human. We all have moments in life when we need to believe in ourselves a little more.

Sometimes we get knocked down by life and it takes away our faith in who we are and what we are capable of achieving. However, it's during your weakest moments that you need to pull upon your strength and remind yourself how strong you really are.

When you think about it… nothing is impossible, but our minds try to tell us otherwise. People come from nothing every single day and go on to achieve great feats in life. Why? They have developed an unwavering belief in their capabilities. In his book, The Biology of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles, Bruce Lipton suggests that our beliefs and perceptions create our biological makeup. Who you believe you are is who you end up becoming.

Where people get into trouble is that they allow other peoples' criticisms and judgments to define who they are. You cannot control what other people think. I learned this the hard way when I was younger, but I learned it nonetheless. When I was a teenager, I was bullied.

In order to protect myself, I built up a wall around myself to the point where I became invisible. This was my mechanism to avoid experiencing anymore hurt or pain. I carried on my life as if others did not impact me, but the bare truth is that they did. What I didn't know then that I do know now is that there will always be someone who will try to tear you down.

It's up to you to decide whether or not you will allow peoples' behaviors to affect your life.

The reason why I have achieved so much success in my life is that I routinely ignore the noise of others' judgments and opinions. More importantly, I never stopped believing in myself. I planted a seed, worked really hard and watered it every single day. The words, “I can” became my life anthem.

It's amazing how a simple shift in your narrative can change the course of your entire life. If someone has achieved something great, there's no reason why you can't as well. The only thing that matters is what YOU believe is possible. 

Here are 4 strategies that you can start implementing today that will help you flex your belief muscle.

1. Step Outside Your Comfort Zone

Your comfort zone is your enemy. It may feel safe, but nothing ever grows there. As a society, you are conditioned to seek out comfort and avoid pain. If you cannot deal with discomfort, you are only going to hold yourself back in life. Self-growth builds confidence and allows you to look fear in the eye and give it a wink.

Research by brain scientist Gregory Berns of Emory University School of Medicine shows that the two key factors in long-term life satisfaction are novelty and challenge. Your needs aren't going to be met by staying comfortable. Rather, it's only when you are willing to risk everything and break free from your routine, that you will experience a sense of gratification.

I'm not going to sugar coat it… the act of striving for success is not a comfortable experience. If you want to achieve success, you've got to get comfortable being uncomfortable. The only way that you truly step into your power is by stretching yourself.

As Dan Stevens said – “The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.” By confronting your fears and doing things that scare you, you challenge your belief about what is possible.

2. Quiet Your Inner Critic

We've all been faced with that pesky voice inside of our heads that tries to tell us that we aren't good enough, smart enough or successful enough. Your inner critic does a fantastic job at keeping you safe from harm, but it does an equally fantastic job at encouraging you to doubt yourself and your abilities.

Unfortunately, a lot of people assume that these thoughts must be true simply because they are thinking about them. If you are struggling to believe in yourself, it's highly likely that your inner critic is in the driver's seat. If you leave this voice unchecked, it will start to create a mental pattern of negative comments that can wreak havoc on your life.

This is why you need to start questioning everything that your inner critic says. One way of doing this is by looking for evidence to support or deny what this negative voice is telling you. Doing so will allow you to challenge or replace irrational thought patterns that don't serve you with more empowering ones that do.

3. Don't Settle For Mediocrity

I want you to be honest with yourself… who's life are you living? If it's not yours, it's time to get real and ask yourself why. Too many people give up on their dreams because they are too busy living someone else's life. As a result, they never realize their true potential in life.

Don't ever settle for mediocrity. If someone says that something can't be done, be the first person to prove them wrong. Your dreams matter and you deserve to aim as high as you possibly can. Commit to becoming the person that others aspire to, the person who is willing to give it his or her all, despite odds being stacked against him or her. 

No matter what, don't surrender at the first sign of defeat. Yes, during the process of working towards your goals, you will encounter a lot of challenges and failures. However, these moments will provide you with golden opportunities to bear witness to the greatness that lies within you. Who do you want to be? Hold onto that vision and spend every waking moment of your life doing the work to embody that person.

4. Talk To Yourself Like A Winner 

From the first moment that you wake up in the morning, you have a choice about how your day is going to flow. You can either bombard your mind with negative thoughts about who you are, or you can think empowering and uplifting thoughts that motivate you to achieve more. Which path sounds better? Unfortunately, a lot of people don't think that they have a choice, to begin with. They assume that self-deprecation is, and will always be, a part of who they are.

The fact of the matter is that nobody is born with low self-worth. You come into this world with a positive, “can do” outlook. Unfortunately, people come along and consume your mind with negative thinking, so much so, that you stop believing in yourself.

You start to take on self-defeating beliefs that weren't even yours. These beliefs become your thoughts, which then become the words that you speak. It's fair to say that negative self-talk can drastically affect your confidence and self-esteem. When you think the worst about yourself, that's exactly what you end up creating in your life.

The good news is that, with positive self-talk, you can over-write that negative voice that lives inside your head. Your inner critic can't survive on positivity. When events happen in your life that are viewed as negative, positive self-talk swoops in and reframes the situations, so that you are able to find the good amidst the bad.

The next time that you practice positive self-talk, don’t refer to yourself as “I.” Instead, refer to yourself as “he” or “she.” Current research shows that second-person self-talk strengthens both actual behavior performance and prospective behavioral intentions more than first-person self-talk.

When you talk to yourself as if you are a winner, you embody that truth. The good news is that this has always been your natural state. Somewhere along the way, you may have lost yourself, but you can always get that positive person back.

Anything is possible, but only if you believe it is.

At the end of the day, you’re the only person that can truly believe in yourself. Don't allow yourself to be your own worst enemy. If you have days when you forget what you are capable of, remember T. Harv Eker's words – “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.”

Believe in yourself. If you don't, who will?

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I want to share with you the worst advice that I've ever received.

I have a feeling that some of you have either been given this advice before or have given this advice to others. 

We've all been on the receiving end of advice at some point in our lives. When you are struggling and desperate for answers, any advice can feel like good advice. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

Are you ready to learn about the one piece of advice that could have left me stuck in one place forever? What I have to say may surprise you.

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Choosing to ignore the worst advice ever saved my life.

Sometimes people give advice without thinking about the effect that it may have on others. Their intentions may be good, but they've still got their own agendas in mind. The wrong advice can lead you down an entirely wrong direction in life. Here is a story about how I came to receive the worst advice ever.

I used to be the opposite of who I am today. For those of you who don't know my story, I used to struggle with extreme shyness and social anxiety, on top of depression. I got bullied a lot, so much so that I had to move schools three times. As a result of all of these setbacks, I barely graduated high school.

My way of escaping pain was through video games and watching TV. That became my entire world. I didn't want to take responsibility for my life. It's fair to say that I was in a dark place. Thankfully, I hit my emotional threshold and decided that it was time for a massive change.

That is when I discovered the world of self-development which allowed me to realize that ANYTHING was possible. During this time, the one thing that I really wanted to work on was my social life. Unfortunately, the advice that I was consistently getting from people was to just be myself.

That ended up being the worst advice ever.

It only served to limit my true potential. If I had followed this advice, my life would have never changed. I would have continued to be a shy, depressed, and lonely person.

Research shows that painful, early experiences and definitions affect the way individuals perceive and present themselves throughout their lives. This leads them to develop an “accidental identity”, rather than a true sense of who they are. I didn't want to be known forever as the shy guy who had no friends and who could never get a girl.

In order to become more, I had to be what I was not. I knew that if I wanted to change my life, I had to level up. This meant being brutally honest with myself about how I wasn't showing up. I was forced to step outside my comfort zone and face my fears. None of that would have ever happened if I had chosen to play it safe and stay stuck in old patterns of thinking and behaving.

The best advice that I can give you is to be your best self.

You can be, do, and have anything in this world. However, in order to step into your power, you've got to be willing to let go of anything that doesn't serve your highest self. I promise that when you change, everything will change for you.

What does your best self look like? Let that version of yourself be the motivating force that drives you to level up your life.

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Changing your life starts with changing yourself. Self-development is key to your success. It is the only path to accelerating your growth and actualizing your potential as a human being. Here's where things get tricky.

Some people love the idea of self-development and become so obsessed with learning that they never take action. They fall into a self-development trap, where they read a book, listen to a podcast, or watch a YouTube video, and think that they have found the solutions to life’s problems.

Yes, there is value in doing these things, but knowing is not enough. Doing is where the magic lies. I believe that real self-development in life doesn’t occur until you step outside your comfort zone and implement what it is that you have learned.

In the words of Abraham Maslow, “In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” Which option will you choose?

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Changing your life starts with changing yourself.

Unfortunately most people don't want to grow because growth is uncomfortable. I hate to say it, but the only time that you are actually growing is when you are uncomfortable.

A comfort zone feels good, but nothing exciting ever happens there. When you commit to self-development, and learn how to embrace the discomforts of life, you enter into a whole other world of possibilities. That is the secret to changing your life.

Dr. Elizabeth Lombardo, psychologist and author of Better Than Perfect, says that, “People who regularly seek out fresh experiences tend to be more creative and emotionally resilient than those who remain stuck in routine.”

The truth of the matter is that, changing your life starts with changing yourself. The very things that you see me doing now in my online business, whether that's public speaking, filming YouTube videos, or interviewing people, I was once terrified to do.

I used to experience extreme shyness and social anxiety. I had so many doubts and limiting beliefs, but I knew that in order for me to actualize my potential, I couldn't live in fear. If I wanted to be successful, I had to learn how to be uncomfortable. Once you master discomfort, there isn't anything that you cannot do.

Success isn’t something that you are both with. Rather, it is the result of a never-ending commitment to self-development and growth. Don’t avoid difficult things. Rather, push your limits and stretch yourself whenever you can.

In the words of Jim Rohn, “Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become.”

Self-development is the key to changing your life.

The more that you challenge yourself, the more that you grow. There is no better way to find out who you are and what you are capable of. The fact of the matter is that most things seem utterly impossible until they are actually done. Are you ready to face your fears, step outside of your comfort zone and become more?

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I would like to share with you my experience speaking at the Amazing Seller Summit in Las Vegas in front of 1500 entrepreneurs and Amazon sellers.

I had the pleasure of speaking on the topic of, “How to use YouTube in order to promote and sell any product.”

I wasn’t always fond of public speaking. Those of you who follow me know that, when I was younger, I was very shy. The idea of speaking to anyone, let alone thousands of people, gave me extreme social anxiety.

I am a big believer in the power of stepping outside of your comfort zone and doing things that scare you. Through a lot of experience, I have been able to develop the confidence and passion that is required in order to become a captivating speaker.

In the words of Rob Brown, “If you can speak, you can influence. If you can influence, you can change lives.”

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After speaking at the Amazing Seller Summit in Las Vegas, I had an opportunity to interview some inspiring entrepreneurs who have had massive success in the online business world.

I spoke with my good friend, Ryan Moran, who is the CEO and Host of Freedom Fast Lane, a podcast that helps high achievers build businesses and then invest the profits.

Ryan has built and sold many successful online businesses. When he was 15 years he worked at a coffee shop, where one of his customers gave him a copy of Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!.

In that book, he learned one thing that changed his life forever – that rich people acquire assets. He started his first business in college and made his first million as an affiliate marketer.

He got to a point in this life where he wanted to build a brand, and affiliate marketing allowed him to acquire the cash flow that he needed in order to do so.

He took the skills that he learned as an affiliate marketer and built a series of successful physical product brands. To this day, he believes that the most predictable path that you can take in order to create a 7-figure business is by building a physical products brand.

I also had the pleasure of interviewing Manny Coats, the Founder and Host of the AMPM podcast, which provides Amazon FBA and private label selling tips.

His journey started in finance, however he soon realized that he had a passion to travel and create financial freedom, and knew that he wouldn’t be able to make that dream a reality on the salary that he had.

Manny has been involved in online businesses since 1999 and created the world’s largest and most visited humor site called, TwistedHumor.com. In 2013, he started a mobile game development company, called Mobile Games, and in 2015, he got into the Amazon private label business and launched his AMPM podcast.

Within 9 months of selling on Amazon, he had made over $1 million dollars. He is also the Founder of Helium 10, an Amazon keyword research software tool that helps sellers build a successful Amazon FBA business in order to create the financial freedom that they desire.

Overall, my experience speaking at the Amazing Seller Summit in Las Vegas was a success! I met a lot of inspiring entrepreneurs and celebrated in style with my girlfriend by attending an awesome show called Le Rêve, which I highly recommend you check out the next time you are in Las Vegas.

I cannot express enough how powerful public speaking can be for networking with like-minded people, developing confidence, establishing yourself as an authority figure, and growing your business.

Don’t ever take for granted the power of the spoken word. It has done amazing things for my career and my life, and it can do the same for you. As always, I hope that my story inspires you to overcome your fears, harness the power of your voice, and share your message with the world.

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