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5 Minute Friday: Your Inner Critic Called; We Sent It To Voicemail

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Doubt’s voice can sound smart, caring, even protective. It whispers you’re not ready, asks what if you fail, and points to every past misstep as proof you should wait. Today we flip that script by naming the two sides of your inner voice—the protector and the leader—and showing how to train your language so your actions match the future you want, not the fear you remember.

We start by mapping how self-talk becomes outcomes: thoughts spark emotions, emotions drive actions, and actions shape results. From there, we get tactical with clean, usable reframes you can try right away. Trade I hope this works for I’m built for this. Replace what if I fail with I grow with every attempt. Move I’m not ready yet into I take action and figure it out. These aren’t fluffy affirmations; they’re strategic prompts that cue your nervous system to lean into calculated risk and future growth.

Belief needs scaffolding, so we unpack a simple three-part method to make new beliefs stick: repetition to wire the language, visualization to give your mind a target, and celebration to reward progress and lock in momentum. We pair that with a nightly alignment check—did I live as my highest self today?—so behavior becomes evidence. Act before you feel ready, gather small wins, and let those results strengthen the belief that you can handle more.

By the end, you’ll have a compact toolkit to shift from protector-dominated self-talk to leader-led action: precise language swaps, a repeatable belief-building loop, and a practical way to turn intention into proof. If this helped you take one step forward, share it with a friend who needs it, subscribe for more Five-Minute Friday hits, and leave a quick review to tell us which reframe you’re claiming next.

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Okay, it's Jordan here. Have you ever thought to yourself, I'm not good enough? Have you had those internal thoughts of you're not ready for this? You can't do this, you're not ready. Today, it's five-minute Friday where we're gonna produce five minutes of content for you, and we're gonna give you the insights quick, hard hitting, and you're gonna get there right away. So let's become aware of what's going on. We have an inner voice, we understand that. And what we're gonna discuss today is about our inner voice, how to become aware of it, how to overcome it, and then have that empowering voice for the end. So there's two sides of the inner voice: there's the protector and the leader. The protector is the one that focuses on what can go wrong, rooted in past experiences, seeks comfort and certainty. The leader is focusing on what could go right, oriented towards future growth, and embraces calculated risk. So you want to realize that every single day, every single conversation we have, we have the protector role and the leader role. What we need to do is become aware, because we can't control what you don't notice. So I want you to start to understand that you have these inner thoughts because these inner voices are thoughts that create emotion, that create action, that create your results. So if you can adjust the thought that's coming in to go from I'm not good enough to I'm gonna take action anyway, and I'm gonna figure it out, you're gonna have much better results. You will change a lot of these results. And a lot of the ones that people have are I hope this works. Instead of I hope this works, let's do I'm built for this. Some people have, what if I fail? I know we've all thought of that before. Instead of that, we do I grow with every attempt. Or we might sit there and go, I'm not ready yet. Instead of that, let's do I take action and figure it out. Because you want to realize that the intentional language we use is gonna create the life that you're visualizing and that you're seeing. Because to make a new belief for ourselves, it starts with three parts it's repetition, visualization, and then you have to celebrate the wins. You have to remember that you've come a long way, but you're moving towards it. So I want you guys that are listening to this and girls, I want you to act before you feel ready. I want your behaviors to cement your beliefs. And I want you to do it in daily alignment check-in. So I want you to sit there and ask yourself, did I live with alignment in my highest self today? And I want you to realize that there's a momentum loop that's gonna start to happen for you. You're gonna start to have these positive thoughts. You're gonna start to have confident action that's gonna lead to tangible results and stronger beliefs. So that's how you're gonna adjust your internal thought process to be in control of it instead of be letting it be in control of you. I hope you got some value from this, and I look forward to the next five minute Friday.