Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
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One thing is for sure ........ Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. Doubt can be created by experience, by adversity to risk, or simply by the frames we create. Below is my take on overcoming doubt
Some call it the 'devil's advocate' or even 'critical thinking' but there is no way to sugar coat it. It is DOUBT, the doubting little voice in the back of your head that can become paralytic.
Doubt may be the most destructive and biggest waste of your time and killer of raw talent you encounter in your career. Why? Doubt usually rears it's ugly head only after we have started a project or initiative or plan. We have already made an investment and commitment of our precious resources and it is doubt that begins to sabotage our success. It's self fulfilling and reinforces 'play it safe' behavior.
Next, once you've allowed doubt to dictate the outcome, we begin to set LOW EXPECTATIONS because of a need to be certain or successful. These lower expectations and the need to be certain results in our boundaries, or our frame. We tend to live within our frames and they define our effort and outcome. To change our frame we need to be exposed and most importantly, open to new data points to stretch.
To summarize, it is your DOUBT that begins a cyclical and performance limiting process. Doubt, and the lack of faith and belief, leads to failure or lower performance. The result can be a set of lower expectations and a new tighter frame.
Overcoming Doubt:
How can you overcome debilitating doubt? I've found two simple concepts to help clients and mentees successfully quell the little voice inside.
Work Backwards. Start with your vision output and work backwards to where you find yourself today. Being able to see the incremental steps, sometimes very small steps, helps break down what can seem to be a monumental task or goal.
Adopt Continuous Improvement As A Lifestyle. Once you embrace failure as an opportunity to improve, your outlook and belief system can completely change. Adopting a forward looking posture that rewards incremental progress can be very liberating!
As our friends from Shinedown point out in their song 'Get Up', we must have a bias toward action to overcome the paralysis that comes from self-doubt ....
"If you were ever in doubt
Don't sell yourself short, you might be bulletproof
Hard to move mountains when you're paralyzed
But you gotta try
And I'm calling out
Get up, get up
Get a move on"
Shinedown - GET UP (Official Video)
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