Show Up Confident: The Blog by Michele Charles Gustafson

4 Ways To Uplift Your Confidence Now

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We all need a reset button - for confidence, in our closets, and sometimes for both at the same time.

How do you do it? Are you intentional about it?

If you've been with me for any time, you’ll know I hit my own reset button a few times a year in a few different ways. At these times of celebration and reflection, I sit back in a quiet moment and marvel at what power...

Something’s Telling Me To “Listen!”

2020reflection inspiration journalling on my mind & heart Dec 16, 2020

The most important whispers in your quiet moments will be deafening.

I know better than to go against the whispers.

I have one right now saying, “It’s time to rest and listen.”

It’s what I’ve heard in my ear, in my writing, in my journal, in my talks with mentors, from my trusted advisors, even from my prayers.

When you crave rest, you're likely long overdue...

Journals are Journeys

2020reflection journalling showupconfident Dec 08, 2020

I’ve been journaling since I was in Grade 5. It all started with a Woolworth’s unlined lockable pocket journal. I still have it. And since then, I’ve amassed dozens and dozens of journals from fancy moleskins to 50 cent Hilroy school notebooks. Each carries a journey from a piece of life.

From happiness to hurts, greatness to grief, these books, and the conversations with...

Country Drive Clarity

2020reflection inspiration journalling mindset Dec 07, 2020

If there's one thing I love about living in rural Alberta, it that inevitably, you'll need to take a country drive. For me this morning, my drive came at just the time I needed it.

I was "itchy" for some clarity on my 2020 and what to "do next." I know I talked on the latest episode of the Confidence Shift Podcast about learning to "sit in the success." I did - well for about four full days,...

Start Anything With Confidence. Finishing Everything With Confidence.

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Your ability to Show Up Confident begins with giving yourself time to discover your next level. If you are beginning anything, save this as a reminder.

Then, when you finish, celebrate! Confidence is built every time you finish something and learn from it. If you are finishing, save this and post it as a reminder to yourself about your journey.

What I Do In Times Of Change [PODCAST]

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In times of change, having habits and perspectives that help you move toward finding meaning are the most powerful. I’m sharing exactly what I do to manage change and why even in extraordinary times, you can begin developing a series of ways to bounce back from anything. I mention a couple of ways I may be able to help you in the episode. Find the links here:

Thrive...

See Wonderful Beginnings Hiding Themselves In Ends

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It's a sacred time for me - the journal swap day. It's the time when one finished, and another begins.

Mike Posner's song "Move On," said it best, I think:

"Beginnings always hide themselves in ends."

Positive shifts in any part of your confidence come as a beginning from an end. The value in the change - the joy or pain in it - rests in perspective you create around it.

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Treasure A Terrific Conversation With Yourself [PODCAST]

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Learning to develop a conversation with yourself is one of the most powerful tools you can own to build and evolve in your confidence. If you love journalling or would love to start, listen as Michele shares how to drop every reason you have NOT to begin and compels you to own your practice with the 7-minute x 7-day journal project challenge.

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