As Gloria Steinem says, the truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

The reality is if you want to achieve something great in your life, you've got to be willing

to accept who you really are right now.

You've got to know exactly what you're good at and what you're not.

And the reason that the truth is going to piss you off is it's going to hurt.

It's going to hurt to acknowledge that you're not yet who you want to be.

It's going to hurt to know that you're not yet capable of the things that you want to be

capable of.

And it's really going to hurt to know that the things that people say behind your back,

the things that they say to hurt you, that they're actually true, that they're right.

They have a point.

You aren't good at that thing.

You aren't as good as you could be.

You did embarrass yourself.

You have fallen down.

All of those things are almost certainly true.

It's but when you can look at those things, when you can stare nakedly at your inadequacies,

you can really stop and not protect yourself with ego, but protect yourself by knowing

that you're going to learn from where you failed.

You're going to learn from the places you've fallen down.

You're going to learn your inadequacies so that you can build something new so that you

can move from that place into a place of purpose, into a place of skill set where you can

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