The Russian Judge | Career Angles

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Someone once said that making a decision is the ultimate power. After all, what you focus on, what its meaning is for you is the thing that gives you emotion and strength to persevere.

Too often, decisions waiver in the face of resistance. We allow ourselves the opportunity to hesitate, procrastinate, and surrender that decision to the wave of powerful pushback.

When I was growing up and the Cold War dominated the news, I remember watching the Olympics and when a US gymnast performed what seemed a great routine and several of the judges gave high scores, there is always the one Russian judge who wouldn’t.

Today, many of us live with that one Russian judge in our head telling us that we can’t do it, the price isn’t worth it and it would be so much easier if only . . . .

Looking back, I know nothing about gymnastics. I was a fan rooting for my home team. It is certainly possible the Russian judge at that time was right in grading that gymnast a low score.

The Russian judge who lives between your ears, however, is a liar who preys upon your weaknesses, whispers or shouts in our ears, telling you the most useless things, trying to corrupt your decision.