Monday Motivation: Do you take yourself too seriously?
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How to Make Change Stick (And Avoid The Old Habits You Want To Replace)
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Arnold’s Corner: Monday Motivation
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Monday Motivation: Laugh At Yourself
I’ve had a big week of doing things that make me uncomfortable.
I have a new book coming out early next year.
I know a lot of you imagine that I don’t have struggles. I have more money than I could ever spend; I have a wonderful life. A lot of you see me as the king of confidence.
But put me in front of a microphone and ask me to read a book, and that confidence disappears. The struggle starts.
I’ve talked about it before. I am not a good reader.
When I was a kid and got called on, it was a disaster, and the teachers couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me.
I have to memorize my scripts for movies and read my speeches 20-30 times to be confident.
So this new idea that the author reads their entire book out loud? It’s a nightmare for me.
But I do it anyway.
Imagine if I told all of you every week to embrace discomfort, and then the second I faced it myself, I ran away?
I make my way through it with the same advice we share with all of you.
I practice like crazy. (Reps!)
I get started instead of putting it off. They wanted to record next month. I said, let’s just start. (Procrastination just delays the pain.)
I break my sessions into smaller chunks. (Don’t try to eat the whole apple in one bite.)
And I remember to laugh, to turn off that voice that says people are judging me, probably saying to themselves, “This guy was a movie star and a Governor?”
Because the reality is you record them with an audience. A producer, a script supervisor, an engineer, a tech person on your side, and a whole team.
You know they’ve done the same thing with people who are great readers a million times, and now they have to watch you bumble all over the place.
You’ve got two choices: make it worse for yourself or laugh about it.
I can’t change the reality: I’m a bad reader, and I have to do this. The hard way or the easy way.
I can choose to schvitz and stress and beat myself up.
Or I can choose to laugh and move forward.
And you should too.
It doesn’t change what we do. It changes how we feel about what we do.
We all have a part of our brain that wants us to take ourselves too seriously. I can’t tell you how important it is to learn to turn that off.
That part of my brain wants to bring me back to 1955, a book on my desk in front of me, sweat starting to drop, classmates judging, my teacher throwing chalk at me because she thinks I’m purposely messing up.
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