TPS #12 Don't let Imposter Syndrome Stop you.

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Welcome back, Solopreneurs.

Imposter syndrome is like a disease that paralysis your ambition.

One that fills most entrepreneurs when they are just starting their journey…

Early in 2021, the snow was still falling, and I was driving to my job at the Amazon warehouse.

If you have ever heard about what it’s like there, then you understand that it was hell–I was treated like a literal cog in a machine.

I showed up daily to stand for 12 hours, not talking to anyone or going on my phone.

My job was to package an item 200 times per hour.

(They could even tell how long you would stop and come talk to you if you weren’t “performing.”)

One day, I was not having it.

My mental health was down the drain, and I broke down right there at work. Panicking, I stumbled to their version of a “nurse,” and she told me I couldn’t leave if I didn’t have the personal hours to take off.

Or I would be fired.

It’s a real win for mental health over at Amazon.

Besides the point, I saw what life truly looked like for people who thier precious traded time away at these corporations only for a paycheck.

Don’t get me wrong, money is nice, but it will never repay the stolen time and my deteriorating mental health.

All I wanted to do with life was start my own business and be financially free.

I didn’t know how, where, or even why. But I realized that doing what everyone else was doing would never get me there. Only right back in the Amazon warehouse.

Being in the mind of a 20 y.o. with no tangible skills or experience… I thought nobody would ever take me seriously.

• Who would buy my products?

• Who would read my content?

• What do I even want to start in the first place?

These questions are what most people never get past.

So, how did I?

Looking around at all the types of people trading their lives away for money did something to me.

I saw what the future looked like for me.

More specifically, I saw what my future would look like if I never took risks and just stayed comfortable and “secure.”

The fear of becoming what I hated most got me off the couch and onto the battlefield. But it’s not what keeps me fighting.

One key character trait of successful people is –almost to a fault– delusional self-confidence.

Let me say that again:

Delusional. Self. Confidence.

It sounds a little nutty. But, if you don’t fully heartily believe in yourself, how could you expect someone else to?

Believe me when I tell you I was not confident at all.

But confidence, like most things, is a skill that can be learned. It doesn’t have to be something you are just born with.

“ You can’t fail if you never quit.” –Alex Hormozi

This quote is what I internalized to flip my switch of delusional self-confidence

What a fascinating concept.

Having heard this, it made whatever project I wanted to start feel more real because I knew that as long as I never gave up, I could never fail.

Isn’t that what we’re most afraid of in the first place? The fear of failure?

Well, for me, at that time, it was. I was scared of letting everyone down and disappointing my parents.

But once the element of fearing your project will be a failure is removed, it makes the next steps to starting tangible.

It’s easier to know that, yes, I am going to fail, but not from the macro perspective. There will be road bumps and times when I feel down, but I will be successful in the end.

So, I solidified the thought to myself:

I am going to be successful, not immediately, but definitely.

Your mind is powerful, and your thoughts can truly become your reality.

The best way to get over imposter syndrome is to cultivate an environment that allows you to take chances and believe in yourself.

If that means cutting off less ambitious friends… by all means, do what you must do.

There are no right or wrong answers.

It’s a complex skill in life, but you must learn how to sacrifice local pleasure for global benefit.

Look past now.

What is going to be important to you in 10 years?

Is it going to be that one friend who wants to go out drinking every weekend and smoke every night?

Yeah, probably not.

So go out there and do what you know you should be doing.

Believe in yourself, and others will believe in you too.

I’ll see you back here next Saturday, friend.

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