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Have you noticed in our society, humility is often praised and celebrated? Like, we are actually told to downplay what we’re good at and to be humble about it! Yeah, no…I’m not for that!

As a parent, I’ve always believed in the power of instilling confidence and self-belief in my girls. Reagan has been here for my entire spiritual, unlearning mindset journey, so she’s gotten this from a very young age. I actually have this routine with her where we do her affirmations. I give her prompts and she completes them. She’ll say things like, “I am smart” and “I am strong.”

I do this because your subconscious mind is formed by the age of 7. I was determined from day one to make her believe that she’s good enough.

The moment that changed my thoughts on being humble

So, here’s what happened – Reagan came into the kitchen one day and, with so much confidence said, I’m really good at basketball.” My immediate gut thought was to tell her to not brag and to humble herself. Like, I literally almost corrected her, but I stopped myself. Why the hell am I about to tell her to be humble? Isn’t it good that she thinks she’s good at something?

If she had come into the kitchen and told me she’s really bad at basketball, you better believe I would’ve given her the pep talk of the century about how she’s not bad and she needs to believe she’s good. So, why the hell would I do the opposite and tell her not to brag??

Teaching my girls confidence

I’ve spent so much time creating this narrative for my girls to have these subconscious beliefs that they are enough. So, when they tell me they are good at something, I’m going to fucking celebrate it! I want them to be confident, to believe in themselves, and to celebrate when they achieve their goals. I want to tell the world what they’re achieving.

Just because they celebrate their wins, it doesn’t mean they are trying to make others feel small. I think that’s the narrative we’ve been told to believe. But that’s not actually true. We can teach our children that when other people celebrate themselves, they don’t need to feel small because of it. We can also teach our children that when they’re celebrating themselves, it doesn’t mean they are putting others down.

Let’s teach our kids to celebrate their wins!

I honestly think more kids should be walking around telling us they’re great. How many of us are sitting here as adults trying to convince ourselves that we’re good enough, talented enough, or smart enough? We have these deep feelings and thoughts that we’re not? Maybe if we were taught as kids that it’s okay to celebrate our wins, we wouldn’t feel so uncomfortable talking about it now. Maybe we would actually believe we ARE good enough.

So, I’m changing the narrative. It’s a small thing that we can continue to do for not only us but for our kids. We can encourage them to share their wins and celebrate when they do good and to be proud of it.

Get ready to hear:

• Why I almost stopped Reagan from celebrating her achievement
• What I have done to instill confidence in my children
• How many of us have grown up to believe we need to be humble, and why I’m choosing to change the narrative
• Celebrating our own success

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