How To Allow The Inner Hero To Become Back In Charge and Run the Show in Your Life?

When was the last time you've experienced a form of self-doubt when you allowed that inner voice to whisper in your ears limiting beliefs that you can't do this or don't deserve that? 

If you've experienced this in the last 24 hours, this week, or recently, trust me, you're not alone. You're allowing this inner voice to hold you back from taking proper action to pursue your ambitions. 

This inner voice is working against you and the worst part of the story is that you don't often acknowledge its existence. This pessimistic voice is making you miss opportunities. 

The good part of the story, there is also the hidden hero who's waiting to be released. To awaken that sleeping hero inside of you, you first need to acknowledge the hidden villain inside of you and kill it off. This simple self-discovery will restore your confidence level.

How Did you Allow This Inner Villain to Take Over and Run the Show in Your Life?

Your past experiences have a huge impact on your self-perception and future vision of yourself.  The news is packed with negative information. In fact, the news thrives on the negative. When was the last time you heard in the news about a happily living married couple or a country that's living in peace and harmony? The media got it, people tend to react to negative news, and so the media gives more of the same. The advice to work on your weaknesses comes from your spouse, friends, colleagues, or your boss. This kind of advice only makes you feel weaker to an extent you don't want to hear about it again. The caveat is that you acknowledge your weaknesses and you feel inferior subconsciously!

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The Most Costly Advice

When the inner villain takes over the show of your life, things tend to get worse! You feel the pain and you want help and advice from the people who are close to you. Out of their love and concern about you, you get bad advice that encourages you to play it safe. This only feeds the inner villain and makes him stay in control. You will soon discover that this type of free advice ended up being the most costly advice.

Please take a moment a reflect on that moment when you had a great idea that you felt could change the world. As soon as you shared your idea with your close entourage, you were discouraged by bad advice that was given out by goodwill and their bad experiences. Your friends or family members were genuinely protecting you but were unwillingly killing your confidence in the process. It's all well-intention but destructive advice that stops you from taking action with calculated risk to change your life. After a few years or months, you will hear of a person who bought the same idea to life, changed the world, and created a multimillion-dollar company out of this idea.

I've been advised to ignore bad advice from unqualified people. I would recommend you do the same. Just move any bad advice (aka free advice) to your inner trash can and ignore all bad advice that's robbing you of success, confidence, and going to the next level. Those who are giving out free and bad advice only know how to do it wrong!

On the other hand, there's a lot of good advice out there from qualified people who have experience. You just need to filter any advice and check if the person is qualified to give that advice. 

How to Allow The Inner Hero to Become Back in Charge?

Convert past experiences into lessons. No person on this earth didn't experience failure and defeat in any endeavor or project they are undertaking. The one thing to learn from successful people is how they converted such negative experiences into lessons to better themselves in the future. They tend to celebrate failure as an opportunity to learn. They keep on focusing on the future vision of their life. Implement a news diet by limiting the time you watch, listen or read the news, even if they are so interesting. Refrain from discussing the news with other people, but if you do participate in discussions, and wish to say what you think, make it short, and be careful not to get into heated discussions. Over time, you will feel you're getting a little detached when watching, listening, reading, or discussing the news. This form of news diet will teach you to be mentally free and able to shape your own opinions. This time saved from following the news could be spent on you as a cognitive cleansing. Work on your strengths , instead of your weaknesses. Get amazing on what you do well. If ever you need to work on your weaknesses, be conscious to have one area of improvement (aka weakness) for every nine areas of strengths you're upping your game in. I've been coached into getting someone to do the things I'm not good at so that I can focus on the things I do well. I extend the same advice to you! This is a great way to move from being "good" to become "great" at the things you know best.

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