548: How To Deal With Doubt

We all carry doubt.  Even the most polished and pretty people on the internet. For real. In recent months, a number of people have applauded the ways I’ve shown up online and in my business over the last year.  Friends - it is NOT without doubt from time to time.  I have doubt on a fairly regular basis, especially when things around me feel out of my control and unpredictable. So, you know, like every single day of 2020.  That said, I know how to manage doubt - perhaps on an expert level - because dread is one of the gifts (shall we call it?) of my anxiety. I manage a lot of dread. Like, every morning when I wake up. And this has been the case for as much of my life as I can remember.  This dread tries to tell me that things will be hard and maybe I won’t be able to figure them out or get them done or perform at the level I want. This dread leads to a lot of doubt, so I have to call him out as the big fat liar he is. Because I manage anxiety and the accompanying dread on the daily, I am intimately connected to feelings of doubt. I have worked to overcome this doubt with some simple mental reframes that work very predictably well for me - thankfully! After receiving so many compliments on how I’ve powered through the last year, it occurred to me that you are not seeing the full truth (read: doubt) behind my Instagram photos - and that’s not fair.  So, listen in to hear me share more about doubt and the 4 specific simple ways I reframe doubt #everydamnday. What is true and what is beautiful ID the hard feelings ID where you have power in terms of options and paths forward ID your superpowers and how you can apply them to this situation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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