That Voice in Your Head? It's Full of Shit

There’s a version of this you’ll recognise.

You’re having a perfectly fine day. Nothing is particularly wrong, nothing’s on fire.

But out of absolutely nowhere, your brain produces something like: you’re falling behind. Or this isn’t going to work anyway so what’s the point. Or everyone else has figured this out and you’re the one who hasn’t.

It arrives with zero evidence yet total certainty.

It doesn’t knock or present a case. It just shows up in your own voice, already dressed as a fact, and you believe it.

Not because it’s convincing but because it’s familiar.

It sounds like you, so you assume it is you.

So you don’t argue with it, you barely even clock it as a thought.

I had one of these last week that was so ridiculous it actually made me laugh once I caught it.

I’m 4 months into a year-long trip through Latin America, doing work I chose and living a life I spent 2 years building.

And the thing that’s surprised me most since we started travelling? The guilt.

Not about anything specific. Just a constant you should be working right now every time I’m not at my laptop.

18 years of corporate life + a deeply type A brain will do that to you.

So there I was, sitting by the beautiful Bacalar lagoon in Mexico, and my brain’s contribution? You should be further along with your business by now.

Not “this is nice” or “well done, you!”

Just: not enough.

The fucking AUDACITY!

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