Imposture Syndrome Is Real

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happening for a greater good, right. And I told you in a previous episode, I'm watching this new show on Apple TV Plus entitled The Big Door Prize, and it really got my interest because, well, one first and foremost, I got a glimpse that my girl, Gabrielle Dennis. Mind you, we probably met once or twice on a red carpet, but clearly that's my girl was on the show, which nade me want to dive in and see what is

it about? Well, if you heard the last episode, it's about this machine called Morpho that appears in a store in a small town called Deerfield that's telling folks their life potential. Folks are going in this store putting money in, putting their Social Security number in, letting it scan their fingerprints, and boom, their life potential is revealed. If you came across the machine that could tell you your life potential, would you use it? Would you be apprehensive of finding out

what it is? If you found out your life potential is what you're not doing, do you think you would have the courage to pursue it? Or better yet, what would you do if the card that revealed your life potential is what you're doing right now, how would you feel about it? Well, these are different scenarios that are happening with various individuals within the show. However, what I want to highlight on episode three spoiler alert, spoiler alert,

is about impostor syndrome. Are you familiar with it? I feel a lot of us have experienced it or probably are experience in it right now. What is imposter syndrome? Well, I'm glad you asked. I had to go ahead and google it because I know it was about, you know, the idea of not feeling like you're good enough or

understanding your worth. But here's the actual definition. Imposture syndrome is defined as an I quote, the condition of feeling anxious and not experiencing success internally despite being high performing in external and objective ways. Now we see this coming out full throttle when the episode opens up or shortly thereafter, because it highlights one of the main characters in the show. Or Yeah, his name is Jacob. Jacob works at the

store that the more machine appeared at. He uses the machine and he gets the card hero Immediately he rejects it like, what is this pause? How many of us have or shouldn't say us, Have you ever found yourself blocking blessings in your life, whether that be a compliment somebody wanted to share with you, Oh I couldn't do that,

that wasn't me. Whether it was a new opportunity which you felt like you weren't ready for because you didn't deserve it, or perhaps even sabotaged a relationship of somebody that is wanting to love you because you're so used to the contrary. That's what I like to define it as ways that we are getting in our way, hence blocking us from living out our full potential. So here comes Jacob, like I said, he's at the store. He gets the card Hero. Immediately he's trying to rebuke it, like, oh,

that's not me, that's not me. The store owner, who is uper excited, is like, whoa, let me take your picture. Let me take a picture of you and the cart, because I'm sure you are going to aspire so many other people. Well, let me tell you about Jacob's here car giving the term Hero. What we find out in the episode is that the principle of the high school that he attends Deerfield High School got into a motorcycle accident.

You may recall I mentioned her in the previous episodes where I discussed episodes one and two of the Big Door Prize and how the principal her life potential car came out as a motorcyclist. So what does she do? She went out there and got a motorcycle. Well, in episode three, it is revealed that principal pat that's her name, got into an accident, and you know who saved her, Jacob. Now here's the thing. As soon as Jacob discovered that she had went off the road, he dialed nine to

one one. He goes into class, everybody's congratulating him, like, oh my god, she did an amazing job. Even when he goes home to see his dad, which their relationship was a bit strange due to recent deaths, talking about oh, son, you're a hero, old dad. What is this about? Why are you talking to me now? Now? Just to give you an idea, Jacob is having challenges because he grew

up in the whole family household. We learned in this episode that his mother died a few years ago, and which he's carrying the burden of having to be the parent for not only himself and his twin brother, but taking upon the household because his dad has following a deep depression. But hold on, get this, a few months ago, his twin brother dies, so that really places the strain on the relationship with him and his dad because he

feels as though he can't communicate with his dad. And his brother was the superstar athlete quote unquote, the hero of the town that everyone looked up to. So when Jacob receives his card that says hero, he has a hard time accepting it. Why because in his mind he can't measure it out well, you know the quote from Marianne Williamson. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Question for you, how do you measure potential? Because you're not there yet, you get an idea of how distant it is, it is, how grand it is, how large it is, how amazing it is. But the reality of it is is that oftentimes we haven't necessarily tapped into the greatest part. And I feel as though the journey of life is all about that. But see when imposter syndrome comes in the way it comes almost like a shield.

The way I imagine in my mind, it's like these blessings in the form of rain coming down, and an individual experience in imposture syndrome will immediately open up the umbrella, feeling as though it is or they are protecting themselves, but an actuality blocking the blessings that are raining down on them. Now, if you think about it in hindsight, I'm just saying this and it's just being revealed to me.

But oftentimes I feel as though we don't step into our new potential or our grand potential, our greatest potential because we are trying to protect ourselves. Us tells some what Dawn. I'm glad you asked of the unknown, of the possibility of more. Why Because we get confined a feeling safe in our environment in which we can control, not realizing that when we have the courage, the audacity, the ambition to step out and grasp and reach for our full potential or even get on the brink of

tapping into it, how many other people we actually inspire. So, like I said, here's Jacob going to the school. Congratulations. His dad is even enamored about the work that he's doing. He really hasn't had a conversation or relationship with his dad and which he longs for. And here his dad is saying, son, I heard about what you did for principal pat. Wow, you're a hero. Congratulations, even calling him

a nickname that he isn't necessarily used to. Yeah, this embrace that he has been longing for for so much with this dad, he is having trouble with accepting it. Why because he doesn't know the greatness that resides in him, or perhaps he knows that it's there, but he isn't willing to accept it. Has that ever happened to you? Has that showed up with you? I don't know. It

could be an amazing relationship. It could be you pursuing your dream job, you loving on your family, just you showing up as your best self and reminding yourself who you are and if you're a believer, it's who's you are as well. So in this episode we see Jacob as having a hard time with grasping the idea that his potential could be a hero, and perhaps because he feels as though he can't even save him self. M catch it, catch it? So whatever self limiting beliefs that

he's placed on himself. He can't even recognize that by using a phone and dialing nine to one one he served as a hero to the principle of his high school. I wonder how many of us have life saving powers at the tip of our fingers, but choose not to use it, life saving powers within our mind hmm, and

choosing not to use them? Is it you now? Oftentimes I feel as though while we have a hard time with stepping in our great, true potential, our life potential is, like I said, because we have these limiting beliefs that all often comes down into the form of what we feel is a lack of preparation hm. Because we feel as though we're not ready. But the question is are you ever really ready? They say life is the greatest teacher because you take the test before you learn the lesson.

Sometimes you just have to start in order to be great. You just gotta put one foot in front of the other. They say, all it takes is the faith, the size of a mustard sea, just the love. Love. But if you so concerned with every time somebody is working to affirm you, to love on you, to bless on you, to pull up your umbrella. Well, teck, you don't make any room for you to receive your blessings. Furthermore, you living out your best life and tapping into your greatest

potential can inspecre somebody else. Why is that? Why is that that we are afraid of who we truly are? Why is it that we are afraid to feel who we truly are? Why is it that we are afraid to be who we truly are, or perhaps what we have the potential to be. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure well potential. How do you measure that? It's stepping out on the abyss. It's called taking a chance.

It's called having a vision with no sight. Did you catch it? I ain't talking about what you see because I said this before and all remind you again. Don't let what you see make you forget what God said? And is that God of that special little voice inside of you? I think it's time to tap into it. We here for a good time, not a long time, so we have to make it count. We have to live our lives and be bold because we only get

one that's it. And if there's more for you to do, more for you to accomplish, more than for you to see, why not? Why not? Oftentimes we say why why this? Why this? I want to implore or put this question on you. Why not? Now? We have to also realize that when going after our potential, our life potential, doing what we never thought of doing, well, we can't even fully pave out the whole way of how to get

there is that it's gonna feel a little reckless. It's gonna feel a little uneasy because you're discovering what it is. That's why it's called potential. And something that stood out so interesting in this episode for me, well, you know I told you about the teacher Dusty Dusty Hubbard. His name reflects truly who his character is, honeychild, because he ain't trying to change nothing. Can you imagine never drawing your curtains? Could you imagine never flipping over your cushion

on your couch? It just gets flat, it just gets stale. You gotta have movement, because what do they say, if you don't use it, you will lose it. So while Dusty is so content on being Dusty, other folks have more so as they're affirming and telling Jacob, oh, you're so amazing, You're a hero. You save Principal Pat. He can't seem to embrace it. And in dusty and sure, old dusty fashion, he's like, hey, I'm about to call

Principal Pat on the phone. Principal Pat answers the phone on the FaceTime and we see her laying in this bed. Immediately Dusty is like, well, Principal Pat, look what happened to you? You out there recklessly living out your potential. And you know she changed the verbage. She said, I was out there pursuing my potential, having the time of my life. Are you ready to have a time in

your life? Are you ready to really be bold and go after the desires of your heart, the desires that you have buried so deep inside, the desires that so many people have affirmed you up your greatness before whatever reason, Maybe because you decided to be comfortable, you wanted it to be easy, you wanted to know what to expect. You haven't done it. Or perhaps it's just about living in fear because changes sounds a nerving Well, you want to grow right, you want to be stretched right? Well,

you gotta step into it and lean into it. You know, sometimes we ask God to grow and it starts raining. Can I be transparent with you? Well, I'm gonna be anyway. I was sharing with my train of Latif. I say, these next two months, I'm about to be so damn fine, I'm gonna be so damn fine. You gonna want to lick me. I'm serious. I say all that because I had a moment of growth of really what it means to tap into my potential, and that's really what get

my fitness. That is an area that I know I have potential, but I have yet to really seize it. Because I know what's gonna require me to change change my mindset, not only just change physically, but change the mechanism how I think and how I deal with food. And so in this process because I'm taking it to the next level of these two months, is that I'm not only eating clean, but I'm counting my macros. And

I was sharing with Latif. I said, oh my gosh, I burst it out in tears doing this, calculating these numbers for that, making sure I'm under the calorie count, making sure I maintain my protein, my fat, and my carbs, doing something that I have never done before and making sure I'm staying on task with it now. As much as I love food, honey, I was always looked to eat, honey. That's why I will work out for blood, honey, because

I gotta eat. What I realize is that I can have a healthier relationship when it comes to food and what it's going to boil down this discipline and oftentimes when we ask God to grow, it starts to rain. But we have to realize is that we ask to grow, and with growth comes change. It's called evolution, it's called transformation. Well, if you're seeking a transformation, if you're seeking more with your life, well you're gonna have to step out there

and do more. Don't sit here and be complacent talking about you want happy doing what you're doing when you're not making a choice to do something different hmmm. Because if you content with being unhappy doing what you don't want to do, can you imagine being content and loving what you were born to do? And oftentimes it's going to take you to just simply discover, take you to get outside of your box, whether that's getting outside of your city, leaving a job that you'd have been there

for fifty billion years. That isn't serving you or simply learning to love your self. And see, when you love yourself, you want to do right by yourself. You want to fulfill yourself. But oftentimes we look at our sense of love as a sense of control, when essentially love is free. You don't have to hold on and hoard the things that you love. You get that out there and you explore with love because you know that it's forever going

to be constant. It doesn't leave you. So in this moment of Jacob, he's put in this uncomfortable situation of being something he never thought he could be, and that's

a hero. And in so many ways one can imagine that he may feel as though he can't even save himself, being that, you know, living in a home with his father, after feeling like he had to be on the parent figure for him and his twin brother and his father fall into depression and then his brother dies, who is like the superstar of the city what quote unquote a hero is, And now he really feels that there is

a wedge between him and his dad. But here he has a moment where he has inspired his dad to not only embark in conversation, but to quit his job. But it's not so much that his dad said, oh, I just want to quit my job. It's because his dad saw his son save somebody life and said, oh, my gosh, there has to be more. There has to be more than what I'm feeling and what I'm experiencing

right now. And because Jacob is residing in this imposter syndrome of not feeling like he's worthy, of not feeling like he did enough, he's actually shielding in the relationship with his dad that he hoped to connect. Isn't that interesting. It's almost like us as beings, where we're longing to feel this happiness of this joyous life, but yet we're blocking off the connection by not pursuing our wild dis dreams. It comes in the form of comfort, it comes in

the form of distraction. It comes in the form of not taking a chance. But what do I always say? We're here for a good time, not a long time, So let's make it count. Are you ready to make your life count? Are you ready to discover what there is more to do? I know you are because you still listen. I know you are because you're wondering. I know you are because you were made and you were built for it. Well, now it's just time to tap into your potential. B what it is that you seek?

I posted on my Instagram at Dawn Dae speaks a shameless plug, not really, because this is the vitamin dven. During day podcast, I put up a picture of myself before I got into this transformation stage, and I said, SIS decided to be the change she wanted to see.

Sis is me. So what we have to realize is that when we talk talk about tapping discovering our life potential, our greatest potential, that it requires a transformational stage because there's growth, because it's about us being more than we're we all right now, So that means getting uncomfortable. What that looks like is treading on terrain that you have not stepped foot into. What that looks like is you're taking ownership of your life and realizing you have control

over it. So if there's any unhappiness that you're feeling, or feeling as if there is more that you want to do that you should do, that you could do, well, I need you to go look in the mirror and talk to the person looking back at you and remind yourself,

our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure and realizing that when we have the courage to step into our potential, we not only encourage and inspire, but we also lay a foundation of permission for others to do the same. Each one teach one, each one reach one. So is this you in this whole imposture syndrome invalidating all the great things that reside inside of you? Well,

let me remind you of this. What allows a diamond to shine are the multitudes of cuts that have been placed within it. And it shines because it allows the light to come in. Are you ready for the light to come within your life? To ignite this little light of mind? I'm gonna let it shine. Are you ready to ignite that lie and let it bounce around all those imperfections of all the ways that you did not know but stepping boldly and who you are and if

you are a believer, whose you are? Now? I'm going to continue talking about the show because I truly enjoy it, and this is my first time going about where I'm really like talking about different episodes and relaying information. But I said this, this this show on Apple TV plus The Big Door Prize based off the same title book The Big Door Prize by M. O. Walsh is phenomenal because I feel as though a lot of us could get uncomfortable and tapping too our potential because it's too

many folks feeling unhappy. There's too many people not feeling out of gratitude and more importantly, not having the capability to express it because they haven't stepped out of their comfort zone to do more. Is it you, I'm not gonna lie. I've been in this situation. If I can be honest, feeling like I wasn't ready for something, feeling like I wasn't worthy for something, not making room for

myself to be something, We'll make room. It's time to clear some things out because you deserve that, because you're worthy of that. So we're gonna continue this exploration on this show entitled The Big Door Prize, because we all deserve the gift of the present. We all have it because it's right now, and if we could just take the time to look around and acknowledge ourselves who we are, were we're going, we'd all be in a better place.

You know, you gotta be a fool to go after your dreams because it's beyond them what you can see. That's why I need you to have vision. All right, that's it for your dose to Vitamin D. Be sure to follow what's on a social media at Vitamin D. Do'ntee. And I also want to encourage you that if you have been enjoying this conversation, because clearly you're still here, can you tell somebody to tell somebody to tell somebody else that Dawn Day got a podcast and it's entitled

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