Hello and welcome to the Trust Coach podcast with your host Ash Luchmun, bringing you a few minutes of awareness, inspiration and insight to help you trust yourself more and to know yourself a little better.

Today we're talking about getting better with practice, repetition and intention, ideas I am passionate about that have been discussed in previous episodes.

Trusting ourselves in all these areas takes time.

We often make our best effort to trust ourselves to get started, planning what we're going to do, when we're going to do it, as we aim to get better at something.

Then slowly over time we lose that trust, as we end up doing less than we hoped.

We might want to learn something new in its entirety, and find that we've lost trust in the process, and in our own abilities, when we don't see any immediate results.

Achieving competency or a high level of skill in something is our ongoing effort to master something.

We do a lot of this when we're growing up and going through education, as the reward of being educated and building a life is what's promised.

We also might see this play out in other areas of our life, especially in the workplace.

But life is always going to be the longest lesson yet, where our mastery of understanding and adjusting to the world in the eternal classroom around us, is the skill we need to survive.

We need to become our own teacher in order to fulfil the promises we make to ourselves, the promises that really matter.

Remember that anything you choose to master will compound over time, whether that's moving you forwards or keeping you back.

And only you'll know what that means to you.

We should be only comparing ourselves with ourselves against the last version of our efforts in order to take that action, which then drives us with the motivation to succeed. That 1% over time will add up as you take your own effort as encouragement.

Yet, we're rating those efforts against those that have more time in the game, which is the point I raised in an earlier episode about comparison.

Because you can only compare two things that are completely identical.

And if we choose to realise that nothing and no one is... then we're free to carry on knowing our input of 100% is exactly that.

Mastery is a skill that takes time.

It's about listening closer to yourself and getting very clear about what you want.

If you really want to get good at something, then it's only really achievable with consistent, small, sustainable steps.

Everyone will also master whatever they want in different ways and everybody is on their own trajectory and timeline.

So you might as well just focus on your own.

Whatever you choose to do with your day, you always have the power to question everything.

Take some time to remain curious, assume nothing as always and remember to trust yourself.

I'm all about trust, and the evidence around the fact that you have the power, and that means you should learn to place unshakable trust in yourself - no matter what happens.

Understanding and working with our emotions is challenging, yet we can turn them into our superpower, as we try and better perceive, receive and respond to the outside world.

Whatever you do with your day, you always have the power to question everything. Take some time to remain curious. Assume nothing as always, and remember to trust yourself.

Challenges exist in everyday life, yet awareness around what they are, and how we can overcome them can transform our lives.

The purpose of challenge is to empower, to allow that exploration of new opportunities and possibilities.

We can look at becoming unstuck and find our own resourcefulness, by taking small, consistent steps.

We’ve all got some form of evidence in our lives, that we’ve been able to overcome challenges, demonstrating our strength and resilience.

A good coach will give the necessary space and time for that to be explored further.

What do you base your decisions on?

Experience? Other people's opinions, or what feels right to you?

We should always remember that taking decisions are like changing the course of a plane or ship by a single degree, and finding out you're somewhere completely different, intended or not.

The same can be applied to all the decisions we've taken in life. They have led us to where we are, right now.

What decisions could you start to take today, that could take you closer to where you want to be?

Assume nothing, question everything, stay curious and trust yourself.

We’re all comparing ourselves to the achievements of others, but what if we allowed ourselves to focus on what we are doing, understanding and accepting that everyone is on a different part of their own, unique journey, and that we have all started at different points, with different resources and knowledge.

And wherever we are, right now, is exactly where we need to be?

It's that time of year where we're all trying to find that one elusive thing.. motivation. What do you think it means to you?

We all have ambitions in life to climb proverbial mountains and achieve plenty, but it's about taking small steps, taking action.

In the end, it's the actions that will make the difference, not attaching ourselves to the idea that motivation will get us through.

What’s your intention these days? What are you planning on doing with your day today, or planning to accomplish this year?

When was the last time you set a goal, and achieved it, despite challenging circumstances? What made you want to achieve it? And how did you achieve it?

What did it mean to you, and what did you learn about yourself in the process?

These are open questions you can ask, but the beauty is that only you can really answer them.

What do you intend to take away from today's podcast?

Assume nothing, question everything, stay curious and as always, trust yourself.