How to handle your inner Shitty Committee

How to turn the volume down on that inner critic that always turns up any time we attempt to go after our dreams or try something new.

I honestly don’t know what triggered it. 

I never see it coming. 

And yet it always does.

Every single time I attempt anything new, put myself out there, go after a goal or a dream or simply start a new creative project (like starting a newsletter on Substack).

It is waiting for me. 

My Shitty Committee. 

Ready, with it’s clip board and measuring stick, to tell me ALL the ways that I am not up to the job, not good enough, that this is NOT a good idea, it won’t work, it’s going to fail and you are going to look like a fool.

Now, I know my Shitty Committee well.

I have been writing and running workshops about the inner SC for almost two decades. Because if you are going to step off the treadmill to go after your dreams, choose your own path in life and create a life and career that makes you happy, then you are going to have to get used to having your Shitty Committee around.

Some call it the inner critic, Top Dog, lizard brain, the voice of fear. I like to call it the Shitty Committee because p…