The Critic

It's not hard to see that we're often our own worst critics. People who are self starters, highly motivated and determined to be great usually don't care or pay attention to what those around them say about their progress or product. Instead, they constantly battle against expectations and measurements that they've set for themselves. Its it a completely bad thing because I don't know about you but I love to prove myself right. I love to line goals up and knock them down. I love to set timelines and finish ahead of schedule. The only issue with that is the real world is still happening around us. The time won't stop for us to get our thoughts together while balancing a full time job, social life, relationship etc. Somehow you have to make time for every single thing that you want. There's always that plan of how but it doesn't necessarily mean that it will go in your favor. With this comes the self disappointment and let down. I almost automatically believe that others will let me down way more than I'll let myself down. That doesn't really easy the pain of "failing" your current mission(s). That also doesn't mean that you give up on them. I can write about my let downs, disappointments and under achievements for pages on end. The winner in me won't allow it. Why? Because I know that the only way to fail is not to try. So before you write everything off, step back, go over it and find a different approach. Give yourself a little credit but when when to put a little fire under your ass. I think that's pretty fair. "Don't shoot, don't score."