The Self-Efficacy Breakthrough, with guest Dawn Large

Episode 79  Dawn and I discuss breakthrough ideas from the perspective of self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is your belief in your ability to achieve a goal or complete a task. It is dependent on whether you believe you can! "It could be an internal breakthrough idea up to where you have brought the idea/dream/goal into reality. You believed in yourself, and you made it happen." When I first saw the word, I, Gail, thought, "what do you mean by this?" Dawn responded, "let's explore it." When you think about the word break, something breaks, and sometimes we go, "Oh my goodness, that has broken!" But often, when something gets broken, it allows for something new, something stronger, a different way of doing something to be activated. … "One of my passions is this topic of self-efficacy, and you know for me, that's my breakthrough idea. The interesting thing is I got exposed to it a long time ago, during my first career. I worked in exercise physiology, specifically in physiological testing for elite athletes and for individuals who want to compete in some type of sport. Every year we had to re-certify to keep ourselves current and up to date. So, I was sitting in a lab listening, well, kind of half listening - this was a recertification. The person was talking about self-esteem. [I'm thinking] I got self-esteem, yeah, I understand, you know I'm worthy etc. Self-confidence and I went, yeah, I trust myself and how I will show up. So they then introduced the word self-efficacy – what's that? I've never heard of that term before. I looked at my notes, listened to what was being said, and was kind of going, OK, I think I understand. However, I had to think hard as this was a new concept. And the more I looked at it, I thought, I don't really like this term self-efficacy Let's get real here, the reason, I realized I did not have a strong self-efficacy!!!" Dawn continues on her journey of understanding her inner belief, getting real with herself, and sharing her learnings in self-efficacy as part of her mission to guide others along the way. Dawn Large is an Actionability Coach and writer. She is the author of Soul Vitamins, Nourish and Align the Inner You, and as a coach, she works with motivated, creative clients who want to step up to a new level of influence. She is the author of Soul Vitamins, Nourish and Align the Inner You She produces a newsletter: Living Large Newsletter And can be contacted at: Website: www.dawnlarge.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnlarge/ Instagram: @dawnlarge_