 Hi, I'm Jason Troy. I'm an executive coach and I help people eliminate their blind spots and patterns that don't serve them anymore and then work on them on creating the leadership and other development skills they need to really up their performance and become the leader that people can follow. I work with executives, entrepreneurs, and really people that are looking to up level their life. Well today I really want to talk about silencing your inner critic and I actually have a letter for you that you can use your inner critic. So I'd like to read a quote by Pauline Hill. It's every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. And really the greatest enemy for success, drum roll please, is being afraid to fail. The ironic thing is if you're willing to fail then you aren't willing to be successful either. So the challenge is that you've got to be able to do both and perfectionism and procrastination are really the two reasons why you're probably stuck right now and most of the people are and they're really the voice of your inner critic that really starts to slow you down. And the key thing is here is your inner critic doesn't believe you're enough, right? It tries to tell you you're going to fail and tell you to stop trying. And I've got some words for your inner critic today. And you know I think the other part of this before we get to that is that I've got some breaking news for you. Like you're not perfect, I'm not perfect, anyone is not perfect. So in order for us to grow we've got to put ourselves out there and we're going to make mistakes. And I talked to successful entrepreneurs and what they tell me and executives as well and they tell me for about every 10 things they try new five to seven they fail on the first time around. And these are highly successful people. So the important thing is to get out there fail and fail fast so you can learn from it and then you can move forward. So I want to ask you a question. Do I permission to speak to your inner critic for a moment? I'll take that as a yes. So I want to read you this letter. Dear inner critic, please be nice to them. Be kind, have patience and please, please stop being so hard or him or her for not knowing what they don't know. They want to grow, they want to learn and become more. They can't do that if you keep being so freaking hard on them. Give them room to learn to try new things to set new goals. Look inner critic, we all mess up. You mess up too. Cut them slack today and you'll see they're safe that you're okay. All is well and everything is happening in the right time frame. Now, I want to just end of the day tell you that you can't let your inner critic run the show, right? You've got to celebrate your success as you go along. And the key thing is learn from your mistakes and things that don't go the way that you want them to pivot take those learnings and implement them and move forward, right? You only fail if you stop. So the key is is to go quickly learn and take that information and then move forward. Again, this is Jason Troy. You can go to my website at JasonTroy.com that's J-A-S-O-N-T-R-E-U dot com.