Where are you rejecting yourself ahead of time?

This tweet by Sahil Lavingia stopped me in my tracks.

It was shared by The Female Lead on LinkedIn this week - it struck a chord with thousands of people, and I'm not surprised.

Because we're ALL self-rejecting in some way or other.

Keeping ourselves small.

I love the concept of self-rejection.

It's such a brilliant way to reframe the heady mixture of perfectionism, fear of failure and indecision that we experience whenever we want to do something out of our comfort zone.

We 'self-reject' to avoid failure.

Instead, we fail ahead of time by not even trying.

'Don't self-reject' is the best advice ever - but we need to start realising when we're doing it first.

So I've been asking myself where I self-reject over the past days - and I can definitely find areas where I do.

• Not posting new videos on Linkedin.

• Not reaching out to tech companies to tell them I can help their smart employees work better.

• Not scheduling new webinars.

How about you?

Where are you self-rejecting?

Think about it over the coming days - and then go do those things.

Send, post, publish, apply, reach out anyways.

If you would like some help with that last part: check out this week's episode of the Managing the Smart Mind Podcast: "Why You Aren't Taking Action On Your Decisions".  You can find it on your favourite podcast app, or via this link.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Else

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