The Secret to Beating Doubt

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Even after you achieve success and accomplish some of your goals, you’ll still battle doubt. You choose whether or not to let doubt stifle your dream or use it as a measuring stick.

I’ve battled doubt my entire life, just as I’m sure you have. In the second grade, I fell in love with writing because it was a way to communicate words nonverbal. I wrote my heart out growing up.

At 17, I rebelled against my parents and left home. I spent six months living on the streets. At that point, I had to get a job to survive. I gave up my love of writing. In 2011, after a horrible 12 years, I found my love of writing again.

I self-published my first book in 2011 and it completely flopped. You better believe my doubt was screaming at me. In addition to the doubt, there are some major hater that love to criticize everything I do. Here is how I beat doubt and you can too.

Ignore your feelings

If you follow your feelings, you will be on a roller coaster that doesn’t stop. Doubt feeds into your feelings and causes you to believe the worst of what you think. Ignore your feelings, especially when it comes to your dreams.

Trust your plan

Making big changes in your life requires a plan. You research what it takes and when I say research, you need to have a vision for what you want to accomplish.

Embrace failure

Everyone fails. The people who are successful in life have failed, but they recovered quickly. Failure doesn’t have to define you or what you are trying to accomplish.

I hope you choose to ignore doubt this year and chase those big goals and dreams. I hope this is one of the best years of your life.

How do you deal with doubt?

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