Fighting The Enemy Of Change: Doubt
Have you made the commitment that you're making changes in your life this year? Have you seen what living the life of your dreams is all about and decided that enough is enough; you're going to make this the most productive year of your life?
Good, but watch out!
There's a silent enemy that doesn't want you to succeed, it's always there lurking in the shadows, that enemy is doubt.
When you've finally had enough and start to make changes, you better believe doubt will try to derail all your progress. As you're making progress and things start to slow down you hear that little voice in the back of your head telling you that you're going to fail: DON'T LISTEN TO THAT VOICE!
Doubt isn't always from you; it will come from anywhere and everywhere. I remember when I first started to make changes and I told my extended family about some of my goals, let's just say they didn't roll out the red carpet.You should be prepared to have the same experience.
It's in our nature to doubt and it's definitely in our nature to resist change, you know this from personal experience. The beauty of a commitment to change is that it's our way to fight our nature and to destroy doubt.
If you are going to successfully fight doubt you have to realize something: you're going to fail. Not everything we do in this journey to change and accomplish our goals and dreams will work or work how we want it to.
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More than that realize that when you fail it's not the end of the world, you have the ability to get back up and try harder. Nelson Mandela said: "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
It might seem life shattering when things don't work out how we want them to but usually they're not, it's mostly in our heads. Stop listening to those voices or the voices of other people and push forward.
Doubt will also root its head when you have a lack of patience. I know how it is; I've been in your shoes. When we make changes in our life we want them to happen yesterday, tomorrow takes too long! For some of us the changes we're making are huge and life altering, do you really think you could do this overnight? It took a while to get these bad habits we want to change and it's probably going to take longer to break them.
Even when you have made significant progress you'll still have doubts. For me personal this year has been amazing. I am released my second book and have been able to do some guest posts on large blogs. I even got the opportunity to do two interviews (it's weird hearing your own voice) but after all that, even with my book selling well, I still hear the voice of doubt trying to derail me.
It's in my head telling me that what I'm doing is still not good enough; it tells me that no matter what I do it won't be good enough. I hear doubt telling me that my book sucks, that I sounded horrible in the interviews, that I'll be stuck working my day job forever: SHUT UP DOUBT!
I've learned to ignore doubt and to ignore people who want to be negative towards my dreams. I've learned that this is my life, not theirs, I have to make these changes because they are right for my life.
How's your year going?
I hope that you're also having the best most productive year of your life, that's what change is all about. As you move forward and make progress just realize that doubt will be there and will try to slow you down.
The good thing is we've had enough and are pushing forward this year no matter what!
What doubts do you have? Will you let them stop you? (I hope not!) Your chance to beat doubt is with a comment:
