Overcome These 3 Destructive Self-Beliefs and Live the Life You Deserve

And my journey to Olympic greatness

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My parents used to tell me that if procrastination were an Olympic event, I would bring home the gold.

I heard this so often when I was growing up that I eventually stopped questioning it. I reached a point where I simply accepted it as the truth.

But one day I decided I wouldn’t allow other people’s beliefs to define me anymore.

We are all the by-product of the environment in which we have been raised. Our beliefs about the world and ourselves often end up reflecting those of the people closest to us.

Some people spend their entire lives clinging to views that have been ingrained into them by other people.

I think this is absolutely insane.

Here are three incredibly destructive self-beliefs you’ve probably picked up throughout your life, and steps you can take to conquer them once and for all.

“I don’t have time”

I told a co-worker yesterday that I don’t have Facebook on my phone and she looked at me as if I had just sprouted an extra head. But the reason I deleted Facebook from my phone is simple — I can’t trust myself not to waste hours of my life…