This is the secret of the inner critic, that it has a purpose, and its purpose is to help us grow higher and higher if we understand it and use it in its proper way.

Hello and welcome to spiritually hungry.

Welcome.

We're excited about our conversation today.

Yes, it's a very important topic.

We are almost at the end of the month of January and...

Well, as our listeners, we've been listening to this, probably be in February.

Okay, Mike, as I was saying, my point.

I don't have to be confused, like, oh, my God, do I have the wrong date on the calendar?

My point, without being mired in the details, is that I think usually when people come to the end of the first month of the new year, find ourselves in sort of look back at our list right

or even the ones in our heads of our goals of our expectations of what we should have accomplished so

far the things that we said we were going to do whether it's go to the gym or write the book or

even just you know be more mindful of my time or my thoughts or whatever.

And then we look at this month and we're like, oh my God, I'm, I didn't actually move anywhere

or that other person is is accelerating so much more quickly than I am. And so what we want to

talk about is what I think stands in our way of our potential and our desires

for ourselves is that we are our own, maybe for you, our own worst inner critic. And it's that

negative voice, the insidious voice that we don't always pay attention to, but it's the loudest ones in our heads that's

really running the show. And that's what keeps us far from the things that we want to really

achieve. Absolutely. I think that's why I think it's, I've heard this from so many people.

And it's always surprising to me. People I think it's, you know, the people who aren't successful.

The reality is every successful person you know has this going on.

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