And, there are those self-imposed notions that keep us from operating at 100%: the old voice in the head telling us that we aren't enough. That we don't have enough. That we can't do enough.

Try what I did: keep a notebook with you. Every time you come up with an excuse why you can't do something, write it down. Keep track of those mental roadblocks. Once you have a good number of excuses written, sit down and seriously analyze each brick in your wall. How are they connected? Where did they come from? Do you hear them in the voices of your father or your mother? Mine was a younger brother. "Oh, Beth… you can't do that…" Which are excuses from your past failures? Are your inner voices reflecting someone else's bias about you? Are you denying...

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