Good morning. It's Bright and Early and I'm up and out again.

Something I really wanted to share this week was this notion of forget what everybody else is doing, forget what anybody else thinks.

Focus on you. And the reason that I've been thinking about this

week is because I was listening to another podcast and I heard this guy say, you know, do it to prove

them wrong. And he was talking about, you know, people in your life that have doubted you or

people in your life who don't believe

in you or they don't believe that you're going to achieve success or believe whatever you want to do.

You know, he's like, do it to prove them wrong, you know? And I was like, really? I kind of just

thought, no way. Like, I hate that. I think, you know, this thing of, oh, you know, proving to

somebody else who didn't believe in you that you can do it. I'm like, why are you paying any

mind to what anybody else thinks of you? I don't care. I don't care what they think. And I think,

you know, this, I don't think it's a very positive, useful idea. You know, I think it's a much more positive thing to focus on

doing something for yourself, doing something to make yourself feel good, and to prove to yourself

that you can. Forget proving to other people, prove it to yourself. So many people who I speak to,

you know, they lack self-confidence, they doubt their own ability, they doubt their own, you know, their own achievements even.

They kind of, you know, very self-deprecating and, oh, but you know, this person helped me with that or, oh, it wasn't that, whatever the thing is, you know.

And actually, I think, forget proving it to other people.

We need to start proving to ourselves that we can do what we want to do

or that we can achieve success or that we can, you know, run a marathon

or we can get a book deal or whatever it is.

So, yeah, that's something that I'm thinking about today.

Oh, my garment's beeping up me.

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