How do you navigate negative self-talk? 🤔 #JonGordon #SelfImprovement #PositiveMindset

So it's one thing to navigate negative self-talk just in the day-to-day life. It's a next level sort of thing when you are being presented with the negativity in your face, i.e., in this case, you know, you're not getting your book on the shelf. So how did you navigate that, especially early on?

Here I am, I'm 36 years old, I write The Energy Bus. I had given up my career in terms of owning restaurants, sold them, now focusing 100% on writing and speaking. The money is dwindling out of my accounts, paying the bills, supporting the family, paying the mortgage. And I have this dream, and I told my wife, I want I want to sell the restaurants and I want to write and speak full-time. And she said, what happens if it doesn't work? I said, there are no other options. And so being told no and facing all the rejections initially before The Energy Bus, you know, even was published, it was rejected over and over again. And that, that was hard. And there were many moments of doubt. But I've learned that I cannot allow anyone else's opinion of me to define me. I've learned that I'm not going to allow someone's rejection to affect my dream and my goals. I've been told my whole life that I'm