Self-Doubt Destroyer of Dreams or a Tool for Success? #ADifferentPerspective #SeeThingsDifferently #Motivation
Have you ever had an idea? Something that motivates you and moves you in your gut, in your heart, and in your soul? Maybe you want to start a charitable organization. Maybe you want to be a teacher. Maybe you want to start a business. Maybe you want to write a book. Maybe you want to invent something super cool and helpful. Maybe you want to be the best at whatever it is your little heart desires.
You start researching, making plans, doing things to bring this wonderful little dream to life when suddenly the sneaky snake of self-doubt slithers in and like a nasty cobra winds itself around your ambition and confidence suffocating it. Then you stand looking at your little dream wondering if it’s worth chasing that self-doubt back into the dark hole it came from. What if it bites us and our dream ends in a flaming torch of failure? But what if it runs away and our dream becomes one our greatest legacies?
In everything I’ve ever attempted, self-doubt has shown up. Every. Single. Time. It’s shown up when I look at the relationships in my life and whether I’m doing enough or doing the right thing to grow them. It’s shown up in all my academic pursuits. It left me in tears on more than one occasion while studying and taking the CPA exam. During my days of public accounting, it would show up and make me question my intelligence. When standing in front of a classroom filled with students (some of them older than me) I’ve questioned if I was qualified to be there imparting the fundamentals of accounting. When I was in the darkest days of grief self-doubt made me question EVERY moment and why I was even attempting to breathe. Self-doubt has made me question every aspect of my life from my character to my appearance, my heart to my mind. And while that makes self-doubt a bit of a jerkwad, I’ve learned to see it from a different perspective. Self-doubt can actually be a wicked awesome motivator. That’s right folks, I said motivator. 
