How I Look At Self-Doubt

When I start a new project, I’m invariably crippled with self-doubt.

“Steve, this is a dumb idea. Steve, you’re not good enough to pull this off. Steve, this has been done a million times, blah blah etc.”

This self-doubt stays with me for months. I mean six months, nine months, a year.

This has happened to me on so many projects that I now say to myself, “If I’m NOT experiencing overwhelming self-doubt, something is wrong.”

In other words, I’ve come to consider self-doubt a good sign.

Why? Because self-doubt is one of the weapons Resistance uses against us.

Resistance is trying to undermine our faith in ourselves and our belief in the material.

Therefore, I tell myself, the more self-doubt I’m feeling, the more certain I can be that I’m onto something good.

If I weren’t, Resistance wouldn’t be trying so hard to derail me.

How to overcome self-doubt? We can’t reason or argue our way out of it. Resistance is too diabolical. It will present us with doubt after doubt until it overwhelms us.

The only way is to DISMISS it. “I see you, buddy. You are full of shit and I won’t listen to a word you say.”

Take self-doubt as GOOD and keep on rolling.

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