Is the Voice in Your Head Repeating What Someone Else Said?

In the early ’90s, Radio Icon Walt “Baby” Love told me I’d never be a morning man.

It was early in my career. I had just started doing mornings in 1990 on WQMG in Greensboro , North Carolina. Sam Weaver hired me as I was transitioning from The Big DM 101 FM in Columbia, South Carolina.

I think it was around 1991 when Sam Weaver had Walt on the speakerphone. I was excited—this was Walt Baby Love. Sam had let him hear some of my work.

Walt said to me, very bluntly:

“Oh no, you’ll never be a morning man.”

I can’t remember the exact expression on my face—probably shock—but it didn’t penetrate me. I never held that against Walt Love. Maybe at that point in my development, he didn’t hear what he needed to hear to think I’d be a bona fide morning personality.

But life has a funny way of proving people wrong.

My entire career ended up being built around being a premier urban morning talent—working in major markets, syndication, and making an impact that lasted decades.

Here’s what I learned:

Sometimes people come into your life to test whether you really have what it takes to be what you say you want to be.

Did it sting? Sure.

But it never stopped me.

Because I knew something about myself that nobody else could define.

Too many people are walking around today carrying voices in their heads that don’t even belong to them.

Voices that said, “You can’t.”

“You’re not ready.”

“You’ll never be good enough.”

But those are just opinions—echoes—and they don’t belong in your spirit.

You can’t afford to carry someone else’s doubts in your head when you’re trying to manifest what God put in your heart.

So the next time you hear that voice whispering, “You can’t,”

ask yourself:

Because once you silence the voices of doubt, the truth gets louder.

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