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One of the things I noticed myself getting caught up in was reading other people\u2019s content versus creating my own. If you do this long enough, it becomes difficult to step outside of everybody else\u2019s opinions and form your own. I kept wondering why things weren\u2019t growing and developing the way I wanted them to and the answer was that I was spreading the messages of others and not bringing my own two cents to the table.<\/p>\n

You can run into the predicament of lacking enough confidence to just put your content out there. There needs to be a reconciling of all of this that will hopefully lead to you just shipping (as Seth Godin puts it\u00a0http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/<\/a> ) your content and once you do this consistently for a while, by default you will get use to it and far more comfortable with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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