Doubts are LIES!

I was watching Death Note, and something obvious occurred to me. Something obvious that I never noticed.

(Don't tell me anything. I'm only halfway through.) My idea popped up when he said something like, "You know, if you use your head, you can eat as many sweets as you like without gaining any weight." How reckless! For someone like me, that's like smacking science in the face.

People, like L, who are confident that if they want to do something, they can just do it. That... is a powerful belief.

It's not hard to attain this belief-- because it's so easy to lose it. I've lost it before, and I'll lose it again, but right now, I know what it is... --

Believing in yourself is just an absence of doubt. It's not necessarily important to phrase it like "believe in yourself" but more to stop doubting yourself.

Trying to make a decision is difficult enough when you don't believe you can do it half the time, because you are allowing yourself to doubt things unnecessarily.

It's important not to confuse this idea by believing in things that aren't logical, such as bungee-jumping to heal a broken hip, or trying to put yourself into a pre-defined physical stereotype when your physical self simply doesn't fit.... What I really mean when I say "things that aren't logical" is that you must determine what is a lie and what isn't.

Doubts are lies.

So when I don't know what career to pick, I'm letting myself get ten times more confused by thinking "I would likely NOT succeed in that career" about every single one-- if I think I can't succeed by going down those paths, it's no wonder I feel like my available choices suck!

I know, you're thinking, "You didn't realize this before? It's so DUH."

Well, it helps me a lot. Honestly... a lot of people doubt themselves and hold themselves back. Just imagine what you could do... if you had the ability to raise your eyebrows to a challenge, smile inside and out, then move forward with purpose. What could you accomplish, if you picked your challenges not based on your ability, but on your desire to reach something?

And with all barriers gone, what do I really want?

My fear... is a dark illusion. I can BRUSH IT AWAY LIKE SMOKE.