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When Your Mind Pre-Rejects You
I want to share something that made me laugh out loud at myself recently.
I received an email about a proposal I had submitted to do a three-workshop series for a hospital team.
As I opened the email, I noticed my body tense slightly.
And without realizing it at first, my mind had already decided what I was about to read.
It felt exactly like opening a college rejection letter.
Before I had even finished the first sentence, my self-talk had already gone to, “Well, at least you tried,” and “It probably wasn’t the right timing,” and “This makes sense.”
Except… none of that was true!
The proposal had been accepted. And not only that, they wanted to schedule an interview.
I just sat there for a moment and laughed.
Not because I was embarrassed, but because I caught myself in real time doing something so many of us do without realizing it.
I had pre-rejected myself.
Nothing had gone wrong.
But my brain had optimized for disappointment instead of possibility.
Not to protect me from failure, but because that pattern was familiar.
This week, we’re going to explore that moment.
The split second where your inner voice assumes the worst before the facts are even in.
And how awareness, not pressure, is what gives you choice.
The goal is not to force positive thinking.
It’s to notice when your mind defaults to limitation and gently ask, “What else could be true?”
💬 Where have you noticed your mind jumping to the worst-case story before you actually had the information?
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When Your Mind Pre-Rejects You
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