It only takes ONE PUNCH

Yes

Sometimes it’s easier to be hard on ourselves than taking the hard way and believing in ourselves.

if you suck, make sure it's hard. if you are hard, find someone to suck.

"Hahaha these motivated images are getting out of hand" "So many people are going to not know who said what and take it as facts" -Michael Scott -Dwight Shrute

I see myself in that picture and I dont like it

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And, that’s when I cut him out of my life, your Honor.

I hear ya, though. Took me 5 years and there’s still pressure to ‘make up’.

This shit is never fucking easy.

Amen!

Should make a prayer service out of texts like these.

Just change behavior! 🤯

Use to have a team lead that would try to benefit in gaslighting the hell out of me while I was in the middle of this, and a rapidly growing state of depression. Not fun.

Things are better now, especially after she was eventually fired. I hope to never return to that state of mind ever again.

Thanks for letting me know that I became disabled and unemployed because I didn't work hard enough for 27 years.

EDIT in case you missed the sarcasm:

https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you

self reflection is always good, self criticism is also good but only if its constructive!

It can be all 3

But I won’t

❤️😭.

"It's pointless" sounds more like something your pride would tell you and "it's impossible" sounds more like a way of reasoning out of doing something.

Here's the rub though, until you try one of them you won't know which is true. You just gotta start somewhere.

Either way🤪

Tell that to my deadlines :(

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Yes, my thoughts also always stop about there.

Even if you let em kill your dream it'll haunt you.

Everyone fails, but you usually only see your own failures very clearly, while everyone else hides their own and presents their strongest points.

The key for me is to compare myself to my yesterday-self, have I improved in any way or am I stationary? If I am stationary, what is the smallest achievable improvement I can make today? Remember that even 5 mins of (repeated) practice on something is good, you don’t have to become a specialist within a week. It is also okay to take a day, or a week off without feeling guilty about it.

On the other hand, if you consistently put in the work and still don’t see any results after multiple months, even after changing your approach, you need to take a hard look in the mirror, be honest and consider if you should further pursue that activity or look at something else. That is still fine! We are not all built for the same things.

That’s fine in and of itself. But the problem is not trying to get closure , rather being forced to continually deal with the same person over and over again