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Why Won’t the Annoying Brain Weasels in My Head Shut Up?
Do you have chittering brain weasels messing with you?
Confession time. While I can put on an excellent façade of confidence and self-assurance — I am in an ongoing war with self-doubt, my self-worth, and the like.
This is a war I’ve been fighting all my life. Though I win many of the battles of this war — I know that it has no end in sight.
Most of the time, this is a cold war. Lots of posturing, threats, and various BS. But then, sometimes, skirmishes occur. Like whenever I push to put out a book, share a blog, do something outside of my comfort zone, and so on.
What do these skirmishes look like? Action on my part versus resistance from my self-doubt, lower self-worth, and self-sabotage. When action occurs, it moves from a cold war to a hot war.
For all the time where I am acting on things, there are lots and lots and lots of times where I am just thinking. Or between such definite action. Such things include doing a project like writing before publishing, background work for my job, homework for my coach, and so on. Relatively speaking, this is action — but it’s more passive, like a sonar open and detecting but not pinging actively.
