You are thinking yourself out of greatness, period.

There is a next level to your life and your reality

that you haven't seen, touched, even come into contact with

because you're coming up with a thousand different reasons why it's not time.

You're not prepared.

You're not good enough.

And I want to share with you.

I mean, obviously, you know, the creative route, the entrepreneurial route,

I've been doing this for about 10 or 11 years.

And arguably the single most important lesson I've learned is that you're never going to feel ready and you're never going to be fully prepared. Going is a prerequisite to feeling comfortable.

You know, there's a lot of talk about earning your confidence.

Well, what does that mean?

How do you earn confidence?

It's not bestowed upon you and then you leave.

You go out, a rookie.

You step out your front door, a student, having no idea, understanding that you'll make

mistakes, but trusting yourself to pick pieces up along

the way.

Right?

And so this is a very simple kind of anecdote, but I think everyone will understand it.

If you look at just the content creation, my output, right?

So writing these speeches, podcast episodes, you know, year one and two, I would write

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