Hey, it's your girl, simply Shanika, and you are now listening to The Goddess Confessions. the goddess confessions. Fear of judgment is holding you back.

A lot of people are afraid of what everyone else is going to say when they start doing things that they're not

familiar with. You're going to have to get comfortable with that.

Everybody is just not going to be at your level when you're already there.

And that's okay.

But you shouldn't stop what you're doing just because they don't understand it. If people actually cared about you, they would encourage you. They would inspire you to do better, even if they're not there yet.

They should, but they're not. That's why sometimes you have to walk away from people like that.

Not necessarily leave them in the dust if you still care about them, but you can't hang around people that try to talk you out of

achieving your goals. Why would you want to? That's not fun. You know, people shouldn't be trying to talk you out of anything. They should be saying,

yes, you should do this, yes, do that. That's amazing I support you but you can't get frustrated when

people do that because you got to realize that everybody just isn't there

mentally yet.

And different things happen at different stages in life for everyone.

Remember that you're running a marathon. It's not a sprint. This isn't a rat race.

You have to get your mind out of competitive mode. You have to get your mind out of worry mode.

And start doing what's best for you.

You're so worried about what people are going to say and how they're going to

perceive it when you don't even know how they really feel. And why should you care? Why would you not do what's best for you because you fear that you might be judged?

Don't you know that people are going to judge you anyway? They already are. When you come around and they toot their noses up at you

and have a lot to say about some of the choices that you've decided to make for yourself.

They're already judging you.

What you're wearing, everything.

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