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How To Overcome Self-Doubt and Achieve Your Dreams
The most common reason you fail to achieve your dreams
“Our doubts are traitors, and make use lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” — William Shakespeare
You wouldn’t know that I struggle with my self-confidence. If you were to meet me or read more of my writing, you would probably think I have everything all figured out. But the truth is, most of the time, I feel like I’m trying to catch up to where I should be.
I have a ton of self-doubt in my life.
Even though I have a decent little following for my writing, I find myself thinking about all the things I don’t know how to do and ways that I am missing opportunities. I find myself thinking more about what I lack than what I’m good at while chasing my dreams.
Every time something goes right in my life, I fear things will go wrong.
Over the last few years, I have been working hard at overcoming this in my life. But it’s hard. Even today, as I write this, I feel plenty of feelings of inadequacy. I look at writing stats or income from my dream and things are nearly zero.
