ScandiScott

You are not what you post. You are not what you promise. You are not what you plan. You become what your inner voice speaks to you in the quiet moments where you are completely alone. You can lie to others, but the man in the glass is never fooled. If you do not make that inner voice yours, then it will take the shape of someone else or be poisoned by others to work against you. They will feed it fear, the language of can't, won't, shouldn't, false safety, anxiety, and all manner of self sabotaging ideas. It will ruthlessly wield that against who you were supposed to be and there you will be... a stranger subjugated by others, trapped inside your body with a foreign mind. No. Do not allow this to happen. Sovereignty of self must take primacy, because without it... you have nothing. Take control of your mind and put it to purpose. Change the way you listen to others; never seek social approval. Use inner monologue to ruthlessly put yourself to purpose and to hold yourself accountable for your failings. Do not fall into speaking down to yourself, and that means do not allow others to do so either. Never allow it. Never. Make no allowances for saying even to yourself, "You were going to quit. You can't do it." Do not allow your own mind to act as a saboteur, but also do not allow your mind to make excuses for quitting. It will make excuses; it does for us all. We know it well, if we are honest. Instead, we must seek to hold ourselves to higher standards, ruthless accountability, and EXTREME self-loyalty... always saying internally: "You can do this. Get up. Don't stop. Let's go. Never give up. Never surrender. Forward. Drive on." Choose your master, or become one.