It’s not laziness. It’s deeper than that.
I wanted to build my brand for a good 20 years.
But I never put myself out there.
I rarely stayed the course long enough to see results.
I wouldn’t prepare myself with the right tools, making the journey more complicated than it had to be.
I made dumb mistakes.
WHY?
How did I go years wishing to put myself out there but unable to?
Because, as Tony Robbins says, success is an inside job.
There was something inside me that firmly opposed the very same goals I claimed I wanted to achieve.
And most people have this issue in one way or another.
They approach their efforts with the wrong attitude—and then act surprised when things don’t work out.
It wasn’t until I fixed that issue that I could finally find my voice and start putting myself out there.
The Self-Sabotage Nobody Talks About
I firmly believed that I wasn’t good enough.
Not to create my own brand.
Not to become a thought leader in my field.
I had it worked out in my mind why I wasn’t qualified enough.
I co…
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