You may recall that back in January I spoke to you about my friend Fear and her sister Excitement. I was encouraging you to embrace Fear because actually she isn’t as bad as she at first seems. Well today I’m going to talk to you about another woman, she doesn’t deserve a name so we’ll just call her your inner saboteur.
She’s the one who plonks herself on your shoulder and whispers sour nothings in your ear. For example, you have a fabulous business idea, you know you can do it because you’ve got the skills, knowledge, experience and capabilities to pull it off but something is holding you back. The movie you’re creating in your mind is one of great stuff, you’re happy and you’re dead excited about it but then you hear yourself say ‘nah, nobody’ll pay for that’ or ‘why would they come to me when her over there is already established in that area’ STOP RIGHT THERE. That actually isn’t your voice you can hear it’s the cunning voice of your inner saboteur. If your inner saboteur was a walking talking living breathing woman she would be an incredibly successful impersonator. She isn’t you, she just sounds like you
Your inner saboteur is nothing but a compound of all things that you have told yourself to be true, all the things you are scared of and all the things you wish were true so you can remain in a state of comfort and security. She at best keeps you inert at worst pulls you back, like the cliché bitter best friend who isn’t happy so stops you from being happy only she’s so damn good at it you don’t even notice.
I have only one piece of advice, ditch her, listen out for her empty promises of failure and laugh in her face. Hopefully she’ll be so humiliated at being discovered that she’ll go hang out with some other poor sod.
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