It’s so easy.
Discounting accomplishments.
Heightening the importance of failures.
We seem predestined for self-doubt.
It’s as if every initiative in life must be twice the struggle. There is the task at hand, but before that, there is confronting the belief that we can do it in the first place.
It’s not just you.
Even the most respected, the most confident, the most accomplished struggle with it. It’s endemic of the human experience. And yet we so rarely admit it.
Though we all share it, we rarely share about it.
So we fine tune our tactics
find ways to hide it and overcompensate.
Amidst all of the books written about the subject and gurus feeding those begging for the answers, the answer I’ve found is simple.
It’s not about changing a way of thinking, but changing a way of acting.
By simply skipping over the questions beforehand and getting right to work, I find myself more likely to end up reflecting on the outcome and appreciating the accomplishment, no matter the quality.
I find that every step of doing something chips away at doubt.
Because what is doubt, beyond the question of whether or not you can do it?
Therefore…just do it?
