Ever have one of those days where you wake up feeling like a failure?
I do. I'm having it right now, in fact.
It might be the weather. It's raining again here in MedellĂn.
It might be that I'm not where I want to be.
Maybe it's because I'm a perfectionist due to being neglected and traumatized as a child.
Or maybe I'm building towards greatness and it's just taking longer than I would like.
God is building up something great for me and I just need to wait. At least, that's what my Instagram feed is telling me.
OK, engaging my rational brain and setting the emotional one aside for a moment...
It is my own personal theory of the universe that people who are failures don't know it. They don't stress over it. They are happy where they are.
An even greater narrative is that no one is truly a failure until they give up.
And even then, you are not really a failure because at any moment you could stop giving up.
Life is dynamic like that. Which is why I always laugh a little when BTC maxis say "The market has decided!". As if that was a dictate handed down from God himself, etched in granite.
Everything is always changing. You can collapse to your knees one moment, ready to slit your own throat and let the squirrels eat your internal organs.
But the next you rise up.
And try again.
And that's really the point of this article.
Whenever you feel like a failure, just tell your brain to shut the hell up!
Turn that negative into something like this:
"OK, maybe I am a complete and total loser lost in my own delusions of grandeur. Yes, it is possible! Maybe even probable. I mean, all of my haters would certainly agree!"
"However, for now, just so we can tell God we tried with a straight face, let's just try this one little next step for the next 5 minutes. Just look at it, at least."
Just contemplate the path ahead for a sec. And push the negative thoughts aside.
Maybe placate them with a Starbucks Mocha or a Lindt chocolate bar.
And keep going!
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