I'm Not Good Enough Where'd That Come From?

In this slightly longer Five-Minute Quickie, we're digging into one of the sneakiest, most stubborn beliefs so many of us carry around:
"I'm not good enough."

Where did it come from?
Why does it stick?
And how do we uncover what's really underneath it?

This FMQ is all about preparing you for the deeper dive coming in the next longer episode, where I'll be guiding you through a process to change this belief for good. But first, we need a seed — a direction — so when we get there, your unconscious mind is already lined up and ready to shift.

What We Explore Today

• How "I'm not good enough" often starts with something very specific.

• Why a general belief always has a more personal root underneath it.

• The types of life experiences where this message gets planted.

• How your unconscious mind tries (clumsily!) to protect you with limiting beliefs.

• A gentle exercise to uncover the real identity belief below the surface.

Your Mini-Mission

Before we get to the long episode:

1. Notice the feeling of "I'm not good enough."

2. Keep the intensity no higher than a 5 out of 10.

3. Ask:

   • "I'm not good enough because I'm…?"

4. Let the deeper belief rise — something identity-level like "I'm stupid," "I'm invisible," "I'm useless."

5. Just notice it. No fixing today — just understanding.

This gentle curiosity will set you up beautifully for the transformation we'll create together next week.

Don't Miss the Next Episode

That's where we take this seed, this awareness, and change the belief at the unconscious level.
Not with willpower. Not with talking. But with a real process.

Share with your friends so we can all make this change together

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Shine Brightly 🌟

Paul

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FMQ520 I'm Not Good Enough Where'd That Come From

 

 

Hey, this five-minute quickie, I'm not good enough. Where did that come from? Slow down, Paul. Where did that come from? And we're going to go there, we're going to just have a little look at this to see where this belief of I'm not good enough, oh, you know, I don't deserve it, or, you know, I have to be a perfectionist, a perfectionist, I don't know why I said that.

 

But just that, I think we've all got a belief like I'm not good enough. And the I think it comes from something else, something more specific. And when we look at the specific and understand it, guess what, sometimes it just disappears.

 

And the thing is, that's what we're going to do. This is, again, a FMQ with a difference. Because it's not just me rambling, although it is a bit.

 

It's all about working out something. So we're prepared for a longer podcast. And in that longer podcast, we can then dive more deeply into that subject and allow it to disappear, come up with a process.

 

So this is what we're going to do. I'm not good enough. Where did it really come from? Now, a lot of you and me, we've just been told it.

 

You've just been told it, you've been told it by your family, maybe members of your family. Sometimes when we think back, we can remember being told, you're just not good enough, you'll never make it. I know I was told that one time about I wanted to be an artist.

 

I don't think I was ever going to be that good. But I had a dream to be an artist. And guess what, I was told, oh, there's so many good artists that don't make it, and you're never going to make it.

 

Now that had more than just the effect of saying, oh, well, you know, I'm not gonna be an artist. It did create negative beliefs in my life, which I've changed now. I've changed.

 

And you can because you can change all negative beliefs, by the way, even a core belief, identity belief, we can change them. So don't worry about that. Where else have you been told it? Have you thought about school? Now, what were you told at school? My son, Joseph, is a perfect example for this.

 

He was told at his, I think it was his last year of primary school, before going on to big school. He was asked to stand up in class and answer a question. And he got embarrassed.

 

He got nervous and couldn't answer and was told by the teacher, well, if you can't answer this, Joseph, you'll never make it in the big school. And he struggled. He really struggled to to go through big school.

 

I didn't know this at the time. He told me later, but he really struggled. But the thing is, never make it.