The Brutal Truth About Your Inner Voice
Let me hit you with something raw: the most dangerous person
in your life isn’t that critical co-worker, that judgmental relative, or even
that toxic ex.
It’s you!
Every single morning, you face a choice. You can be the
voice that says,
“Let’s go get it,”
or the one that whispers,
“Who do you think you are?”
With this choice.
It doesn’t just shape your day. It shapes your entire life.
I had to learn this for years, and I let my mind bully me into shrinking. I chased approval, masked insecurity with overachievement, but still I felt like an impostor. Eventually, I realised that no amount of external success will ever silence the war inside my head.
The real work starts when you stop fighting the world and start fighting for yourself. I know that my scars are proof that I am still here.
Let’s make something crystal clear, mistakes don’t
define you.
How you rise from them does.
I used to treat my failures like dirty secrets. Now,
I wear them like armour.
I’ve lost jobs that meant the world to me. I’ve had my heart
broken in ways that left me gutted. I’ve chased dreams that are still just out
of reach.
But none of that means I failed.
It means I tried, and it means I dared to care. And that alone? That’s worth celebrating.
Every time life knocked me down, I stood back up.
Every scar I carry proves one thing, and it is that I am unbreakable.
Stop Apologizing for Existing
Here’s a little truth, people’s opinions are about as permanent as sidewalk chalk in a rainstorm.I spent so long twisting myself into knots trying to please everyone, trying to be likable, agreeable, small.
And what did I get?
Exhaustion.
Resentment.
A version of my life that didn’t even feel like it belonged to me.
The day I finally said, “Enough,” that was the day I started to
breathe for the first time.
Here’s what I know now, you don’t need permission to take up space and you don’t need to earn your worth, you are already enough.
Seriously through, When that voice hisses, “You’ll fail,” look it
dead in the eye and say,
“Watch me do it!
Courage isn’t some magical thing that special people are
born with.
It’s a muscle.
Every time you choose action over anxiety, you strengthen
it.
You don’t have to wait to be fearless to begin.
You must start while you're scared.
It’s time to rewrite the script
From this moment forward, I’ve made a promise to myself, I will be on my own damn team, when I stumble, and I will, I’ll be the hand that pulls myself back up, not the foot that kicks me when I’m down.
When I succeed, I’ll be the first one to cheer and the last
one to dismiss it as luck.
The world will try to write your story for you.
Don’t let it.
Grab the pen.
Cross out the lies.
And in bold, unapologetic letters, write this,
I am enough, and I am just getting started, and now, I claim my damn victory.
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