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How To Overcome Doubt
Whether you’re successful or unsuccessful, doubt is something we all have to face in our life.
When you’re trying to attain a greater life than the one you’re currently living, you’re going to encounter doubt. I want you to understand that doubt is normal. It’d be weird if you never doubted yourself. But just because you doubt yourself doesn’t mean you can’t overcome it.
The thing is, if you continue to doubt yourself for too long, eventually you will believe it. I don’t want to see you get to that point in life.
There is one simple cure to doubt, and that’s taking action. When you’re taking action, you won’t have time to think whether or not you’re going to fail. The worst thing you can do is give yourself free time. Free time is the enemy because that’s when the doubt creeps in.
When you take action, you see results. When you see results, it’ll be hard to doubt yourself. And the more results you see, it becomes an addiction. An addiction to winning.
The only reason you’re doubting yourself is because you haven’t put in the work. When you don’t put in the work, you should doubt yourself because you’re doing nothing to advance yourself.
If you come home from work and going straight to watching TV, how are you not going to doubt yourself? But what about if you came home and took action? It doesn’t even have to be massive action, it’s small steps added up over time that’ll allow you to get to where you want to go.
Doubt should never stand in the way of accomplishing your dreams. Because the more action you take, the ‘luckier’ you get and you won’t have room to doubt yourself.
Overcoming doubt is as a simple as taking action each day.
When the thoughts of failure creep into your mind, substitute it with action and you won’t doubt yourself anymore!
Trevor Oldham