Jamie Kern Quotes

Self-confidence is the belief in your abilities as a person. Self-worth is the belief in your value as a person.

It takes courage to be the real you, and it’s also the only path you’ll ever find to true freedom. It takes risk to be the real you, and it’s also the only possibility of experiencing true purpose. It takes vulnerability to be the real you, and it’s also the only place you’ll experience true love. Showing up in this world as ALL of who you are tastes like freedom.

One day the people who never believed in you will talk about how they met you. —ANONYMOUS

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. —PAULO COELHO

You didn’t come this far to only come this far. —ANONYMOUS

You don’t become what you want. You can have the greatest heart desire, and really work so hard, so hard, so hard. But if you don’t believe you are worthy, it will not come. That is the magic formula.

When we courageously take steps toward unlearning the lies and gaining awareness of the truths, and assessing the impact of living our lives in ways that are inauthentic, disconnected, numb, people-pleasing, and out of alignment with who we truly are, we begin our journey of going from unseen to seen. From invisible to visible. From disconnected to connected. From doubting ourselves to trusting ourselves. From craving love to realizing we already are . . . love.

Reshma Saujani, in her book Brave, Not Perfect, writes, “We’ve become conditioned to compromise and shrink ourselves in order to be liked. The problem is, when you work so hard to get everyone to like you, you very often end up not liking yourself so much.

In life it’s not our experiences that make us unique, it’s our response to those experiences. And to the uncertainty they immerse us in. Where you come from doesn’t have to determine where you’re going, but it definitely shapes the foundation you have to build on.

It’s been said many times that you are the culmination of the five or so people you spend the most time with. Think about that for a moment. Aside from your kiddos, of course, if you’re a parent, who are the five or so people you see or talk to most often? Do they sharpen you and help you reach your full potential and live your best life? Do they love you well and inspire you to love greater?

Showing up fully and revealing who you truly are with the intention of connection and love is very different from confusing attention with love and trying to reveal things in hopes of calling for attention. Showing up authentically in hopes of true connection is very different from ploys to get attention in hopes it will lead to a feeling of validation or significance.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. — MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

You either walk into your story and own your truth, or you live outside of your story, hustling for your worthiness. — BRENÉ BROWN

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you. — CARL JUNG

As human beings, we’re not wired to be happy, we’re wired to be comfortable. We’re programmed to seek what we’ve known. Even though we think we want to be happy, our subconscious drives us to do everything we can to get back to what’s comfortable, a place that most accurately reflects our sense of worthiness.

Rejection is God’s (or the Universe’s) protection. I haven’t been rejected. My Creator hid my value from them because they’re not assigned to my destiny. Rejection and failure are victorious! They’re a reminder I’m one of the brave ones willing to go for

they just have to believe that YOU believe

God chose me on purpose, with purpose. My journey happened for me; I was chosen to live, and chosen to be chosen.

Because we become what we believe.

See, I believe the moment you learn to trust

The sense that you’re not enough and therefore you’re undeserving of love is as close to universal as a feeling and a fear can be.

A key tip to building confidence is focusing on the gifts that you have to offer.

You rob people of your gifts when you don’t share them with others.

A girl who knows we are not our past mistakes, we are our present and future intentions.

When we have self-confidence without strong underlying self-worth, we’re less likely to take risks.

Everything in life simply carries the meaning we attach to it. That meaning creates the emotions we feel around it. And the emotions we feel then create our life experience. When you change the meaning you assign to something, and truly believe that meaning, everything shifts. Disappointment becomes divine trust. Self-loathing becomes gratitude. Rejection becomes resiliency. Self-worth solidifies.

You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.

See, I believe the moment you learn to trust yourself, and believe that you are worthy, is the moment your entire life, the past and future generations of your family, and our entire world change for the better.

Self-worth is the internal, deep-rooted belief that you are enough and worthy of love and belonging, just as you are. On the other hand, self-confidence, while also an internal trait, is generally linked to your assessment of how you compare to the outside world.

Please help me serve at the highest level I can, I prayed over and over, because I’ve learned over the years that having an intention that’s bigger than myself is the only way to get out of my own head.

in life, you don’t get what you want, you only get and maintain what you believe you’re worthy of.

Self-confidence is what you show on the outside. Self-worth is what you feel on the inside. Self-confidence is based on mastery. Self-worth is based on identity. Self-confidence is what you can do. Self-worth is who you are. Self-confidence is believing you’re skilled enough. Self-worth is believing you ARE enough. Self-confidence fluctuates based on your environment. Self-worth is stable through every environment. Self-confidence is fragile. Self-worth is foundational. Self-confidence is the belief in your abilities as a person. Self-worth is the belief in your value as a person. Self-confidence is “I’m striving to earn love.” Self-worth is knowing “I am love.” Self-confidence gives you drive. Self-worth gives you peace. Self-confidence is optional. Self-worth is essential. Self-confidence eventually surrenders. Self-worth ultimately prevails. Self-worth is your foundation. Self-confidence is the house you build on top of it. Your house will only ever be as secure as the foundation it’s built upon.

When we don’t believe we are enough as we are, attention starts looking like love, external significance starts looking like success, and validation starts looking like worthiness.

Our setbacks are almost always setups for what we’re called to do next in our lives.

external validation feels good but doesn’t fill your soul.

When we make the decision to trust ourselves, things unfold exactly as they’re destined to.

What is our calling is just waiting on us to say “yes?

Know why you’re doing what you’re doing and the why beneath that.

It all comes down to believing in yourself and that it’s possible.

Knowing your why could be what keeps you going in the face of rejection.

What you focus on magnifies.

Gratitude can change everything.

Your gut is always right!

Our gut tells up who we are and what is best for us.

Be confident in your authentic gifts.

Don’t be afraid to sell yourself- it’s a mindset!

Make the decision to believe that you could.

God doesn’t call the qualified, he qualifies the called.

You already have everything inside of you to accomplish your calling.

What we focus on we magnify, so when you’re always reporting what’s wrong—

I believe passionately that we’re responsible for the energy we bring into any room. And I also believe we can allow ourselves to live in our full, true emotions, no matter how horrible they feel, and still show up with love at the same time. When our intentions are based in love, it doesn’t mean we won’t have the same wide range of emotions as anyone else. It just means we accept and process them and share them in a way that doesn’t project pain and hurt onto others.

What’s one story or rejection that’s happened to you in the past, that you need to rewrite today to tell yourself a different story? And commit to remembering this new true story every time you think of this past experience.

In life, you don’t soar to the level of your hopes and dreams, you stay stuck at the level of your self-worth. You don’t rise to what you believe is possible, you fall to what you believe you’re worthy of.

When you change your relationship with rejection and failure, you change your entire life.

The Process: The Four Rs to Transcending Rejection Reveal: Identify your current default definition(s) you give to rejection/failure when it happens. Or the one(s) you use to talk yourself out of even trying. These are often disempowering and happen automatically without intention. Redefine: Create new, empowering definitions that you’re going to assign to rejections/failures when they happen or when you’re tempted to not try, out of fear of them happening. Revisit and Reframe: Revisit and reframe rejections of the past. Assign new meanings to these past rejections/failures that still feel significant in your life. Revel: Revel in rejections ahead! They no longer faze you! Think: Dear rejection, you might be big, but my resiliency is bigger!

BEING VULNERABLE IS hard, but I’ve learned that sharing our true, flawed, authentic selves is the only way real connection and love can happen. It’s the only way to step into our full power and purpose in our lives.

You can’t fake authenticity.

I wasn’t there to compete with them. I was there to compete with what God made me capable of.

In life it’s not our experiences that make us unique, it’s our response to those experiences.

When you know an employee is toxic to your culture, get rid of them right away. Otherwise, that toxicity will spread in your culture and take over, infecting others.

You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself. —GLINDA THE GOOD WITCH, THE WIZARD OF OZ

we just didn’t know what we didn’t know at the time. Sometimes those no’s are actually serendipitous grace, wrapped in a package labeled painful rejection.

How we react to times of uncertainty, and whether we make decisions based in love or fear, can change the course of our life. Champions aren’t made when the game is easy. In any area of life.

Make peace with your broken pieces. —R. H. SIN