A short motivational monologue by Dr. Aziz urging listeners to stop waiting for external approval and to give themselves permission to live fully. Dr. Aziz emphasizes that waiting for others to deem us 'worthy' leads to lifelong hesitation; instead, self-acceptance (worthiness, lovability, imperfection) enables action and personal growth.
If you're waiting for someone else to approve of your choices and your life, then you'll be waiting your entire life. In fact, that's what most people are doing. They're kind of holding back and hesitating and saying, I don't want to try that. I want to do that. Because what if someone judges it? What if it doesn't work? And they're waiting for basically someone to say, yeah, you are worthy. You are awesome. Of course you can achieve things in your life. And we're waiting and giving that authority to somebody. I don't even know who, Right? Who. Who could tell you that? Then all of a sudden, fired up and going out there in your life and doing things right. Cause you probably even had people say, I love you, or, you're great. Maybe a partner or a friend or a family member. And what do we do? Like, no. Yeah. No, Not. Not really. Not really, right? And we're imagining that somehow there'll be this shift later, but it never comes. It comes when you give yourself permission, when you decide, I'm worthy, I'm lovable, I can do things. I'm not perfect. I'm not the best in the world at anything, really, but except for being me. And so I'm gonna go out in the world and do that fully, and let's see what happens.
