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"Why am I not good enough?"
That’s the question you’ve been asking yourself for as long as you can remember. At home, at school, at work… and you just can’t understand why.
Sure, you’re not one to boast or beat your own drum, but you are a sensitive person with a creative and quite intelligent mind. At a glance, your life is well-organised. You have a job, an education, friends, hobbies… and yet no matter what you achieve, you can’t shake the feeling that you are failing miserably.
So many people have so many expectations of you – and you expect even more of yourself! Expectations of how to act, what to do, who to be. You bend over backwards to meet those expectation, but somehow it just never seems to cut it. Other people get it right, you can tell. But no matter how you try to convince yourself that you’re as good as they are, you still feel that you’re coming up short.
All the time…
"When do I stop feeling like this?"
- You are never satisfied with yourself and you push yourself to try harder and do better. You always demand more of yourself, even when you are desperate for a quiet hour with nothing but a book or a computer game.
- Your stomach turns at the mere thought of people being disappointed or angry over something you did. You often feel that maybe it’s better to do nothing.
- Whenever you're faced with new tasks or just lots of things to do, you feel like they slip from your grasp. You know how to do them, but you just... don't? You can’t focus, do only half of the tasks half, or not at all. Then you beat yourself up about not getting anything done.
- You love your friends, but people can be so MUCH. When they talk through each other about mundane topics, your energy drains like an unplugged bathtub. Within minutes of arriving you feel completely exhausted, but... they're your friends, right?
The stress, the headaches, the sleepless nights and the general feeling that everything you touch turns to sh*t. Oh, you know it’s not true, but at the same time, a part of you keeps saying you can’t afford to be satisfied with yourself because you have to be good enough! Whatever ‘good enough’ means…
So you are constantly second-guessing yourself, pushing yourself harder and harder to meet expectations that you aren’t even sure you understand anymore.
But, when you don’t know what the goal is, how will you know when you’ll get there?
"Where does this end?"
You know where this way of thinking, this pressure and this pushing will lead to: anxiety, burn-out, depression, and possibly worse. You know this because you’ve been there before, haven’t you? Maybe you tell yourself it wasn’t so bad, because it was a while ago and perhaps you never saw a doctor who told you how close you’d come to the edge.
But a part of you knows how close you came, and you don’t like what that part is telling you. So for a long time, you’ve shut it up and told yourself that if you just try harder and push further, there is a way out. A way where you won’t fall into that same trap of stress, exhaustion and hopelessness all over again.
The good news is: that way truly exists. The bad news? You can’t find it by doing more of what you’ve done so far.
So what will you do?
Do you want to keep pushing yourself to that edge again, beyond breaking point, where it will take you months or even years to piece yourself back together again?
Or do you step up to make the changes you want to see in yourself? No temporary solutions, but diving to tackle your self-doubt and insecurity at the root, so you can finally enjoy your life again?
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