Doubts Kill More Dreams than Failure ever Will
- Audrey Cook
- Jul 3, 2018
- 4 min read
Most people are afraid to fail but what most people don’t understand is that there is a bigger enemy standing in their way of progress and that’s doubt.
Doubt is belief in the words of your enemy. Imagine a person in the physical, you know they don’t like you, you know they want you to fail, maybe they are standing in your presence and saying things to you that make you doubt yourself. Would your inner being say anything to you to make you doubt yourself. The truth is, most of us allow that outer enemy to cause us to doubt.
Who is the outer enemy? Some of us have the inner enemy, self talk is an inner enemy. The outer enemy comes in many many forms and this is why most people never get to their 'dreams and goals, not because they are afraid of failure, they never get the chance to fail. Think about it, most people have not failed in the thing they are trying to pursue. The problem is you’ll doubt you will ever get there. You fall short way before you get to failure state.
Doubt is uncertainty. It’s those questions you don’t have answers too or you have an answer you don’t like. When we think about doubt, we think of things like the outer enemy, it’s previous experiences.
You have tried something in the past, similar to this as in Home Base Business, or it’s online, and so maybe because it didn’t work out the first time, you now doubt it because this is similar.
Or maybe somebody around you has tried something online and they didn’t have the success, and you have lower self esteem that if they couldn’t do it, it creates that doubt, so you don’t take action or enough consistent action, or your heart is not in the action. Past experiences of yours and others.
Maybe those people in your life don’t understand your uniqueness and your value. It could be the person you sleep with at night, it could be your mother or father, maybe a sister or brother or even a co-worker. It could be any number of people who by way of word or deed cast doubt on your ability and you have decided to believe it.
You know your right! You will probably say that with your mouth or with your actions. People say such things as “you have a great career, why would you want to risk that” or “I don’t know if you should do that”. Everyone has doubts but you need to have a greater desire to overcome those doubts.
You have to do the necessary things to make things happen. Nobody’s road to success is straight. Everybody is going to have challenges, and struggles, set-backs and failures.
Do you really understand how short life is? Do you ever just stop and breath in the fact that your mortality is real? Just because you’re sitting in that seat or driving that car, or whatever you’re doing right now, doing perfectly fine.....that doesn’t mean nothing. You don’t have time to screw around, but here’s what you don’t understand about this thing called success.
The magic to being successful is accepting that doubt is a part of the process. It’s not a deterrent. It’s the greatest indicator that you are where you should be. When your heart starts to race and your mind gets cloudy and you’re not sure, well Congratulations! Everybody who is truly successful crosses that thresh hole. Everybody comes to that intersection. Successful people and Failures hit that inter-section. But the ones that succeed, go through the intersection of doubt. The ones that fail, do a u-turn. Or worse yet, some that actually see the intersection of doubt coming, stop before they even get there.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will because most people never get the chance to fail.
Doubt stops them and they don’t appreciate that it’s an asset not a liability. It’s because of what you doubt, it’s because of what you do with the doubt that makes or breaks your potential.
I’m not talking at you, I’m talking to you and myself. I tell you this because I’ve had my own doubts, and I’ve had to do the work to overcome doubts and not necessarily get rid of it.
Just because you have doubt, doesn’t mean you have to invest the time to get rid of it. You may always have the doubt just like you may always have the fear. The magic and power is not in getting rid of something, sometimes it’s just simply having the power to overcome it. Overcome the limitation. Stop focusing on I can’t get rid of these doubts, I can’t get rid of these fears so maybe it’s not for me.
That’s failure thinking. The real true Champions, feel the doubts and fears and they find a way to overcome them. Overcoming doesn’t mean it leaves, it may never leave, but does that mean you can’t accomplish it, not at all. That has nothing to do with success.
It’s not always about the money. It’s about mastering yourself. One of the biggest obstacle you will ever face is overcoming the Man/Woman in the mirror.
So, if you are having doubts, Congratulations. That is part of the process.
Here are 3 things to overcoming Doubt.
You have to be committed to Personal Development. Everyday take action in the direction of your faith.
Don’t be addicted to the outcome (the outcome you get is what your suppose to have right now
You don’t need to get rid of the Doubt, just defeat and overcome the doubt as it lives in You.
Here's to getting rid of your Doubts!
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