When You Feel Like You’re Not Good Enough

When you feel like you’re not good enough:

What do you do?

Do you withdraw and resist finding a way through?

Is your inner-dialog all about how you suck? (just a small note: you don’t)

Are you hooking up with fear?

Are you failing because you’re a perfectionist – and you’re stuck in the fear of your work not being good enough?

Maybe it’s time to consider that just good enough is good enough.

Yeah, I said it.

Better yet, I mean it.

If you follow me on facebook (and WHO doesn’t?!), you saw this post:

So much head-slapping truth in that small post.

~ stop slapping yourself ~

Am I good enough?

How many times in our lives have we asked ourselves if we are good enough?

Why do we torture ourselves?

When you’re learning a new skill – maybe it’s baking or blogging or building sites – you will not come close to perfection with your many many many beginning attempts, as you figure your shit out.

That wisdom, that fact, Jack, applies across all areas in your life.

No one is born an expert.

You have to put in the time, the hours, the seemingly endless road trip of pit stops and course corrections in order to arrive where you’re confident that you know what you’re doing.

In the meantime, get your stuff out into the arena of your dreams and test its mettle.

Sure it can be scary, but exhilarating too.

This is the stuff of greatness, or good enough-ness!

Fear not, my little apple dumplings!

Flip your perspective and move forward, even if it seems counter-intuitive.

Stop telling yourself: “I’ll never be good enough.”

Do just good enough at first.

Release it and watch.

• Is it flying?
• Is it imploding?
• Is it gaining traction, but not the response you desire?
• Are you freaking out, but a little giddy?
• Willing to try again and again?

Good. You’re officially learning.

Easy to say, right?

If, after all that, you’re still asking: “Why wasn’t I good enough?”

1. Tweak that mofo.
2. Take out what sucks.
3. Replace the clunky parts.
4. Make it MORE valuable to your market.
5. Maybe your next try is a hair above just good enough, but is still lacking, failing even.

It will feel scary, but good on you.

When you feel like you’re not good enough, but you keep going, well, good on you!

Again, I say: Keep going.

Keep tinkering, testing, defiantly moving forward in the face of naysayers.

Allowing your just good enough efforts to live and be seen in the space you want to occupy as an expert, will force you to grow in ways you couldn’t, WOULDN’T, if you refused to release what you know right now.

There will be fear.

There will be doubt.

There might even be an uncomfortable digestive moment.

So. What.

Your why wasn’t I good enough gets replaced with I am good enough.

For now. Until you decide to do something more.

If that’s what you want.

The abundant value in just good enough is gonna surprise you, my friends.

Success comes from trial and error, not hesitation or waiting.

No more waiting.

No more hesitation.

Offer your just good enough and then tell me what happened.

This method will make your efforts, your life, exponentially better.

When you feel like you’re not good enough:

Act in faith that you are good enough.

Why? Because you are.

You. Are. Good. Enough.

Go on.

Git.

I’ll be here waiting on ya to prove me right.

Original Post: December 12, 2017 ~ Updated Post: February 22, 2022