Your inability to work without reward for an extended period of time will hurt your potential far more than your lack of talent.
Before you can become exceptional, you must first become consistent.
Confidence comes from taking action and taking care of yourself, because no amount of positive feedback or reflections from others can replace the way you feel about yourself in private. It needs to make sense in your own frame and experience for your identity to be transformed.
Most people die with 90% of their potential unused because they're afraid of a few years of hard conversations, working on stuff you have no idea how to do yet, and doing way more boring work than you thought you were capable of.
Major cheat code for life: Be patient with yourself when you’re trying to become someone you’ve never been. You’ll feel lost, unsure, and tempted to quit. Don't. Change feels chaotic because your old self is fighting for survival. Expect it to be a battle. But also expect to win.
To all my friends who are seeking employment, as you email those cv’s and going from office to office looking for vacancies, may the favour of the Lord be upon you. His ear is not too dull to hear you nor his arm too short to save you. ❤️
The older I get, the more I realize your standards decide your future. Every time you let something slide “just this once,” you train yourself to accept less. That’s how goals erode. That's how principles slip. Set your standards. Hold the line. Especially when it’s hard.