Doubt the Heart

You must stop doubting yourself
You must stop doubting yourself
You must stop
Thinking things that aren't pleasant about yourself
You must stop hating yourself
You must stop not looking in the mirror at yourself
You must stop wearing the clothes you don't wanna wear
You must stop not saying the things you wanna say
You must stop suppressing your soul's expression
You must stop
If you do not stop
You are killing your soul while you're alive
Your soul will feel like it's dying
Your soul will feel like it's on fire
In pain not with excitement
Your soul is withering
Withering because your lips are sealed
Where they should be open
Your soul is withering
Where your brain is being negative
Where it could be kind and positive
Your soul is withering
Where you are directing hate out at other people
You know it's impossible to actually hate someone, right?
Do you know what's actually happening when you're hating someone?
You're not even hating them
You're hating the story
You have about them in your forehead
Have you ever been in a relationship where you just
Absolutely just detested the person?
You're so upset about it
And then you realize something
You realize something about the event
And then it changes you
Like, you no longer hate
You no longer detest
That person never changed
The only thing that changed was the story in your head
About the person
You cannot hate someone
You can only hate because of a story in your head
The person themselves is not the thing you hate
It's the story about the person that you hate
And yes, if it's a story that's worth hating
You can hate. But goddamn—
Don't you know that hate is killing you to feel?
If Jesus can be nailed to a cross
While still directing forgiveness
What on earth are you doing
Directing hate
Towards someone that cuts you off in traffic?
Oh God
You think you're strong staying in hate?
You think you're strong staying in doubt?
You think you're strong staying in anger?
We aren't strong there
Conor McGregor broke his leg during his fight in the MMA
Because all he was doing was directing hate at his opponent
For like 90 days straight
And it makes the body frail
It makes the body fragile
And yes, this is only my opinion
If you don't like it, then get out of here
Hate weakens the body
Hate weakens the immune system
And you know what is a friend to hate?
Doubt
And you must stop doubting yourself
You must
You must
You must stop doubting yourself
You must stop it
You must
This is a must
This is not an option
Let's bring you forward to the age of 85
And I want you to look at two trajectories of your life
The life at 85 where you were full of your doubt
And you listened to your doubt
And you never got real gravitas or your doubt
So, 85—life of doubt
Where are you at?
What kind of house are you sitting in?
What kind of car are you driving?
What kind of life partner do you have?
What kind of family have you started?
What kind of businesses or missions or nonprofits
Or companies have you worked as an employee at?
A life where you doubted yourself
Then I want you to look at—
Project out to 85 in your mind right now
Right now—85
And that life that you're in
When you did not let doubt run your life
A life at 85—where do you live?
Are you in a different geographical location than you are now?
Are you looking at an ocean?
Are you looking at a mountain?
Are you looking at your lover and you're like
"Oh my God, I can't believe this is my life."
Do you have more kids?
Do you have less kids?
Do you have more cars?
Less cars?
No cars?
Did you start the business of your dreams?
Or the nonprofit of your dreams?
Or did you work for the person of your dreams?
What's the life where you have no doubt?
None—because you stopped doubting
And when the doubts try to come in
You don't choose them
The life of doubt at 85, and the life of no doubt at 85
Let's go. Let's bring ourselves to the life
Where doubt didn't run the show
Here's the deal: how do you beat doubt?
How do you beat doubt?
By saying, "You must stop doubting."
And then as you plant these seeds, you say
"I must stop doubting."
You make that declaration
You make that declaration down in your core
As strong as you can
"I must stop doubting."
And if you keep thinking this
You're gonna start grooving this in
And NLP practitioners will say
Oh no you don't
If you say, 'I must stop doubting,' and you feel in your body—
Doubt stops
It stops
It's done
It's done the second you say
"I must stop doubting."
That's Stage One
Now that we have, "I must stop doubting,"
Now we move
To faith
You move towards love
So we say
"I must stop doubting
And I must start listening to my heart."