I used to take things personally. I used to feel like judgments of other people really meant something, even if the other person was a complete stranger. Now, with my current mindset, it seems insane and I can’t even wrap my mind around it. But getting to this mental space happened gradually, over years.
So naturally this threw some salt in my game since approaching strangers could take any possible direction. I ended up becoming a “material-junkie”, collecting different self-improvement programs to try and figure out how to get what I wanted out of life.
Now that I am away from that sort of crappy thinking, I realize that a person’s judgements were not about me. They could be about how I communicated to them. They could be about my current level of skill even. But never about me.
In fact, I would even say that making [Click to Continue Reading…]
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