So imagine you're sitting down, having something to eat, thinking, relaxing, reading, whatever you're doing.

Someone walks up to the table across from you, pulls out the chair, sits down, kind of leans back, puts one leg over the other.

Casually tells you, you know, you probably don't have what it takes to do anything significant

in your life.

What would you say?

It would be outrageous, right?

That's a ridiculous scenario.

Well, let's say that the next day you get up and you go to walk, run, work out, and he

shows up again.

Starts running next to you, casually reminding you that the odds of you changing, doing

anything for the better or slim to none, that this is kind of a waste of time for you.

You brush it off, you go to work and guess who?

He passes by your desk, leaves a little note saying that your bosses, your higher-ups,

they're cut from a different cloth.

They just see things in a way you can't.

You'd probably tell that person to take a long walk off a short pier, right?

Or at the very least, you'd understand how absolutely insane the situation is.

People can't just walk up and talk to you like that.

But now imagine that same person as you, living rent-free in your head.

And here's the catch.

You invited him in.

You allowed the negativity and the doubt to live there.

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