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RE: I'm My Own Worst Enemy - Self-Critisism & Fear Of Failure
I’m only taking babysteps myself :0)
I had a mom who always told me that trying simply wasn’t good enough. I had to succeed in everything I did.
Which, of course, is impossible. She died more than 10 years ago, but I’m still trying to get rid of that mindset...
I'm sorry to hear that about your mom.
You see, perfection is a disease of a nation (from Beyonce's Pretty Hurts song), but we should strive to be best the way we are. By doing so, you're making your own mark. What is success if it's only you who know about it. (please don't get me wrong)
Steemit's vision is giving, not only writers but everyone, the courage to create their own mark by means of blogging. The beginning is always hard (that applies to everything), but still we should know how to eat an elephant. - by taking the first bite.
True, perfection doesn’t exist, and all we can be is the best version of ourselves at the time present.
Success is hard to define, because everyone has a different idea of what being successful is.
I like the expression about having to be able to eat an elephant - never heard it before, but it perfectly describes my SteemIt experience, lol
Yeah, it sounded funny when I heard it the first time. One of my professor who is a Christian Born Again asked us this. I was puzzled and thought of why eat an elephant. She meant the other way around and it was interesting.
If what's ahead is too big to handle, how would you start to deal with it? You should take the fist step no matter how little. Taking the initiative is a progress. Let that progress continue and before you know it, you've already made an accomplishment.
It’s a good way to deal with things :0)
I need to remember that...
Our thoughts sometimes really make simple things look complicated.