Are You Living Below Your Capacity On Purpose?

About this episode

This episode discusses overcoming negative self-talk and perfectionism to embrace personal growth and identity.

Send us Fan Mail Your inner critic can sound like “realism,” but it often acts like sabotage. After a long, exhausting day of mid-year planning, I hit record anyway because that’s the real work: showing up when you’re tired, a little overwhelmed, and still committed to becoming who you say you are. If you’ve been stuck in negative self-talk, perfectionism, or that constant sense that you’re behind, this conversation offers a grounded reset. We dig into identity and continual becoming, ...

People in this episode

Host: Mark Walker

Topics covered

• self-improvement
• identity
• negative self-talk
• perfectionism
• personal growth

Keywords

• inner critic
• self-sabotage
• mid-year planning
• commitment
• grounded reset

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