Just as you might make time for learning…
So, too, should you make time for unlearning.
Adding knowledge is undoubtedly helpful…
But removing limiting beliefs and toxic thought patterns is liberating.
I help busy people do inner work.
Just as you might make time for learning…
So, too, should you make time for unlearning.
Adding knowledge is undoubtedly helpful…
But removing limiting beliefs and toxic thought patterns is liberating.
It’s hard to take action of any kind when you don’t believe in yourself.
Just like it’s hard to start a business of any kind when you don’t have the resources yourself.
One strategy that has helped countless people start their businesses, however, is borrowing resources from others (like a bank) and paying them back later.
We can do the same thing with belief.
We can borrow belief from others, like a loan of sorts, that gives us the boost we need to take the action; to get the results (and hopefully successes); to build the confidence; to start the self-belief generating process on our own.
The absolute key to doing this is to surround ourselves with people who believe in the human potential. Growth-minded individuals who know that with alignment, action, effort, guidance, and reflection—great things are possible (no matter how inept a person might seem). People who will be there for us in victory AND defeat—because defeat is inevitable on the journey upward and teaches us lessons that victory never could.
Find your people and use their belief in you (or the human spirit) until you’re able to create your own self-sustaining self-belief producing business.
Then, pay off your loan (with gratitude and belief back into others), continue on the path, and let your belief “profits” give you the inner resources you need to chase whole-heartedly your wildest dreams.
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If it doesn’t—stop doing it.
…There just is no place for things like this in a life that lasts but a blink across the span of time.
Rise above the diminishing behaviors. Make your blink a damn good one.
The spirit has no age And yet is shackled To the age we tell it to act From the people who tell it to us From the people who told it to them From the people who made it up The spirit has no age Let it roam free To be as it may— Age-free and un-trapped.
Leadership is not something that’s reserved for certain people with certain titles in certain positions.
Leadership is influence. Period.
And we aren’t capable of interacting with people without influencing them in some way, shape, or form (for better and for worse).
Which means, if you interact with people, you’re a leader (yes, you).
If you don’t see yourself as a leader, maybe now is a good time to start.
Because maybe it’s this limiting belief that you’re not a leader that’s precisely what’s holding you back from leveling up in your life.
Because higher positions of leadership (influence) aren’t reserved for those who shrink to the roles they’re currently in.
Higher positions of leadership are reserved for those who outgrow their smaller roles.
Imposter syndrome is the byproduct of being hyper comparative.
For you can only feel like an imposter if you have other non-imposters to compare yourself against.
The antidote then is to become non-comparative and hyper focused on building up the skills within the identity you want to not feel like an imposter in.
So, rather than compare yourself to the most skilled in your field, focus exclusively on developing the skills of the craft.
Because the cure for what feels like a lack of identity is the accumulation of more actions of someone who would hold that identity. Until eventually, you do it so much that you (finally) become a non-imposter.
This is all to say, if you want to embody the identity of a writer (and not feel like an imposter when you write) just freaking write more—and stop comparing your writing to the greats.
Don’t get it twisted.
What most people think of as innate attitudes are very much so learned skills.