Being confident in what’s next

How to move through distractions / Issue 1,429

Oh, hi friends! 

Are you a confident person?

I don’t mean like you walk into a room and you can introduce yourself to anyone. 

Or that you’re so confident in your actions that you believe whatever happens will work out for best.

But I’m curious about these moments of micro confidence, where once you decide, you decide.

Once you say it’s happening, it’s happening.

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Everything’s a little all over the place this week. The reading for my new musical is tomorrow (!) and of course this is the week a long-delayed construction project decided to roar back to life in my apartment. Whine, whine, distraction, distraction.

So many things can jiggle our confidence, whether it’s a shift in routine or one energy-depleting conversation or reading a scene for the fourth time and thinking, “Mmm, no, absolutely not.”

One question I’m turning to is this:

What did I originally set out to do?

What was the intention?

It is very easy to be swayed — by distractions, by pauses, by the success of other people (TONY nominations came out yesterday!).

You can look around and think, “I don’t exactly feel confident.”

But all I can say is: You are.

I promise you are. 

Because every moment of attention you give to your efforts adds up. 

Drop by drop.

Attention and care create a slow IV drip of confidence.

Attention, care, repeat.