Overcome Self-Doubt & Build True Confidence | Priyanka Chopra Jonas EP 742

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:10Today's episode is here to inspire you to live your best life today. Stories are one of the most powerful tools we have to inspire us, help us see the world differently and take action towards our dreams. And here is one that I love.

0:32as someone in the public profession you know my job is to be entertaining and be confident and in every step that i take and in every move that i make but i think recognizing that confidence is not something we are born with it's it's a skill it's like you know it's a muscle almost if you think of it like going to the gym and you know to to have muscles and to shape you got to work at it just like the vocal cords people the greatest musicians in the world they use you know their their vocal cords they do riyas like we call it in hindi but which is um warm-ups and stuff like that so confidence to me is like that you start using that at a very small level everyday life You know, when you're in school, there were times when I was in school where I used to take the other hallway because I didn't want to bump into someone else when I started high school.

1:29By the time I was in 11th grade, I was walking in the middle of the hallway. And that's the same person. But I think that in any profession or any aspect of life, confidence is perception is reality. Most people believe that, right? You know that how people perceive you is what they think reality is. So give them something perceivable. When I wake up in the morning, I take time in the bathroom. Like I shower, I will, you know, pick the outfit that I'm feeling today. I will, you know, sort of doing my makeup and my hair sort of helps me or my skincare routine, actually. Night helps me be sort of introspective.

2:10Otherwise, through the day, I'm very erratic. I have, you know, multiple balls in the air. Professionally, I'm doing a lot of things. I'm always behind on time. I'm always playing catch up. So at the end of the night, in the beginning of the day, I really give myself some silence. I play music and I put my creams on and I really think about what the day is going to be like and how my first step outside the room is going to be. When I take that first step outside my safe space, it sets the tone for my day. So I try not to have it be erratic or scary or like, you know, if I'm late and if I'm running, that always sets the tone for my energy through the day.

2:49So I try to really, you know, start my day on the tone I want to have and the confidence I want to have. And at every given step during the day, I remind myself of the things I have instead of the things I don't have. Like insecurity comes from a lot of it sometimes I think comes from, oh my gosh, I don't have this. it's not good enough or I'm not good enough for a particular scenario or a particular situation or you know we start judging ourselves and this was another lesson actually an activity that my mom and I used to do is we used to count our blessings and you know me and my husband do it too whenever we're feeling crazy because our schedules are insane we're you know always in different parts of the world, we do that.

3:36We count our blessings. No matter how badly off you are, someone else is worse off than you. That makes it so easy to count your blessings. You know, the crazy part about the White Tiger is that it's based in India and you probably reacted to it because it's shot so authentically. But if you think about it, the majority of the world lives in those conditions. You know, and the socioeconomic divide that exists right now is only increasing. Like even the sustainable development goals have been set to eradicate extreme poverty because it's such a big problem. There's such a large population of the world.

4:23And we as privileged society, we as privileged people, anyone who has a roof above their head and meals on their table is privileged. and as privileged people, like that's something that's our concern. You know, there's a large generation of children who don't have a choice in their future or in their lives. They don't know if they can have aspirations or dreams. How desensitized are we? Last time, you know, you've driven past a homeless shelter and you've not even looked at it or a homeless person and not even looked at them. It's the desensitization that we as people who have and that's the differentiation between the have-nots but it's also a reality and it's a reality everywhere in the world.

5:09We live in a world where anything is possible right now as we've seen in the last few years as well. I remember when I was 28 my mom sat me down one day and she said you know girls have a shelf life and you're reaching that where you know the older boys they're always looking for the younger girl to act with. And even if they're in their 50s, they're still going to be working with 20-year-olds, but you're going to be old and you need to think about a business. If acting opportunities stop coming your way, that's how I actually started my production house. Because I was like, you're right. What if I'm like, I need to be financially independent in my life.

5:51But at the same time, while this was happening to me, I recognized reinventing who I am. even for me, is so important. And being true to the craft that I'm doing and the service that I have to provide, which is my job. So I started trying new things. I started wanting to grow. I didn't want to stagnate into doing the same kind of roles. I didn't want to stagnate in, you know, similar kind of parts or even languages and borders. And I did music. I was signed as a recording artist to Interscope where I met Bose. I pivoted from that into television that I had never done, English language TV. Then I moved into features in America.

6:35Now I'm producing in India and America and acting in both these countries, which are two of the greatest movie industries in the world. But if I sat down to think about the glass ceiling that was built for me, I would never have a trajectory powerful enough to break it. Wow. Because I didn't make that glass ceiling. So I don't want to think about where it is. You know, it's been made by other people. So you just kind of have to have, you know, speed and run towards your end game and, you know, have a goal and be ambitious and fuel that ambition every single day.

7:20I am so excited for you to finish the rest of your day strong. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to click the link in the description and it'll take you to the full episode of my other show, The School of Greatness. Make sure to come back tomorrow for another episode of the Daily Motivation Show. Jesus' name is da.