No one cares about what you have to offer.

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What you do has little impact on the world and those around you, so you should just stop.

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Being creative isn’t a “real job”, so go find something more useful to do with your time.

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If someone said that to a child, you’d be up in arms, ready to fight. You’d tell that child not to listen to such nonsense and follow their heart; follow their dreams and make them come true because they are special and important and entirely, magically creative.

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Yet… we have no problem saying things like that to ourselves. Your brain is ready to put you down before you even start, and you’ve been trained to listen to such negativity.

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Those voices in your head putting you down have been ingrained from all sorts of external forces (media, family, schooling), so much so that when you’re ready to put your best foot forward and go after what you actually want, you crumble from the fear of “what-ifs” and stop before you even get going.

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Truthfully, that fear isn’t going to go away. Fear is useful; it’s how we kept ourselves alive back when surviving the night was the most crucial thing. But, just like every other emotion, it’s meant to be felt, understood, processed, and released. To stay stuck in fear is to stay stuck in place for years on end, wondering why nothing’s changing and you’re still unhappy.

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I know this place very well, and it’s not fun.

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While it may feel comfortable to make excuses for why you can’t go after what you truly desire, at a certain point, you must realize that your life is only going to be what you make it to be. At a certain point, you must come to the realization that you’ve been in your own way the entire time.

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The question is, what are you going to do about that?

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Are you going to continue to let fear win? Or, do you have the balls to love yourself enough to choose a different path, the path you’ve been dreaming of?

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The beauty of life is that we always have a choice. The borgs of this world try to make it seem like you don’t, that you must follow the herd and believe your dreams and goals are unrealistic, but that’s their job to do that. They’re the destroyers of the world; they must exist to keep the balance.

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You, however… aren’t a destroyer.

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You’re a creator… a maker… a weaver of magic.

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Don’t let the borgs win.

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Your dreams are your destiny… so let them free.

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Song I feel jives well with this episode:

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