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Holding yourself hostage

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Holding yourself hostage

What if you were getting robbed, then you found out that the person that was robbing you was you, weird right? That's what happens when we spend time tearing ourselves down instead of building ourselves up.

Now I'm gonna go take my own advice because this something I absolutely have to work on, what makes a master is realizing that you are enough of what it takes to be a master.

It may sound super cheesy, but as cheesy as it is, it's true. Something I've realized recently is how much I've been holding me back, so scared to go out and try new things, or just simply taking me to leap because I might fail.

But we always forget that we have to fail in order to learn! Everyone wants to skip the beginning but it's the beginning that gives us the strength to make it to the end. Think of the greatest people that ever existed, the greatest scientists, greatest singers, greatest athletes out there. The only way they made it was by fully believing in themselves.

If I want this article to do anything for you, it's to encourage to not just keep going but to believe, to truly believe in yourself. For you to read this, and feel so motivated, you would go out and do something you've never done before, which doesn't mean that you won't be scared to do it. But be brave enough to do it anyways even if you are scared. Some of the craziest things I've ever done was also some of the scariest moments of my life, but I never let that stop me from doing it.

Things like depression and anxiety, stop so many people from doing great things! So don't let that voice in your head stop you this time. Let it push you forward, thanks for reading.

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