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Rational vs. inner wisdom

Rational vs. inner wisdom

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Rational vs. inner wisdom

- So often, the things that are keeping us from having the life that we want and achieving our dreams aren't external things. They're not other people or external circumstances. It's the voices inside our head. It's our self-doubt or self-criticism or negative self-talk that's keeping us stuck. Who do you think you are? No one's ever going to pay you to do that and so we don't even try it because we let that voice talk us out of things. So another element in your weekly self-assessment might be to write down both what that critical rational voice is saying to you and what your inner wisdom knows to be true. Get it out. Drag those monsters out from under the bed and give them their proper names. So maybe you've got a voice in your head that says all the good ones are taken or no one ever sells a first novel or you're not smart enough to do that and the thing with that critical rational voice is it sounds so logical…

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