Unsolicited advice makes you feel generous and makes them feel controlled. The people who actually change behavior around you do it because they watched you, not because you told them.
You did not choose these beliefs. You absorbed them before you were old enough to question them. Now they run every major decision you make without your permission.
Leadership is not a position. It is a behavioral event. It happens the moment someone watches what you do and quietly changes what they do because of it.
The reason you only execute under deadline pressure is not weak willpower. It is a trained nervous system. And trained systems can be retrained.
Self-trust is not a feeling. It is a track record. And most people have been destroying theirs with micro-betrayals so small they stopped noticing years ago.