Am I good enough? 🤔 It’s the burning question that lives in our heads.
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“I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. . .We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.”
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Self-doubt haunts us all. Even the greats. That quote was from the Kobe Bryant, the guy who always wanted the ball with the game on the line.
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So how do we conquer it? First we have to go back and ask where self doubt stems from🤷🏻♀️
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The answer is communication. But a different kind of communication. The kind in our head. 💁♀️ It’s called Intrapersonal communication, or what we recognize as internal language or thought and it’s the biggest dream killer out there.
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Kobe help craft his mental edge from Tim Grover, author of Relentless, a book which made huge impact in my life in terms of overcoming fear and “going for it”.
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Warning: Grover’s approach is tough as he’s passionate about separating the talkers (dreamers) from the walkers (achievers).
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🔺”Forget try. Trying is an open invitation to failure, just another way of saying, ‘If I fail, it’s not my fault, I tried”🔺
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Some people aren’t ready for that type of accountability. I thrive on that no nonsense approach. 📖 It changed my workouts 🏋🏽♀️and my career. 💰 I stopped being “soft” on myself and no longer feared self doubt but instead “embraced it” knowing that rewards wouldn’t stem from ‘thinking about it” or ‘getting ready to get ready’. •
Like many of you, battling the chatter in my head and trying to slam the door on the negativity that wants to creep in. I’ll leave you with Grover’s lesson: 🔺”I’m not going to tell you how to change. People don’t change. I want you to trust who you already are, and get to that Zone where you can shut out all the noise, all the negativity and fear and distractions and lies, and achieve whatever you want, in whatever you do.”🔺
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