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Becoming The Best You — Part 4

Becoming The Best You — Part 4

Jack Salmon
August 19, 2026

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Welcome to this weeks newsletter - Becoming The Best You — Part 4

Becoming The Best You — Part 4

Continued from part 3: https://becomethebestyou.beehiiv.com/p/becoming-the-best-you-part-3

That's been my mission ever since.

To become my best self and help others do the same.

The boy who sat up for days drinking and abusing drugs managed to get 5.5 years sober.

Who was uneducated and had no career, built a coaching career and changed over 200+ lives.

Who was unconfident, went on to become a public speaker.

Who was weak minded, completed a 100 mile ultra marathon.

Who felt worthless, hated himself and his life, built a life he is proud of and actually wants to live.

But although life looks fine on the outside, he still feels empty inside.

He achieved more than he thought he ever would. But what the mind once made beautiful, the mind made mediocre.

What all once seemed like a dream becomes a reality and the reality of it is, it's not all what it makes out to be.

Yes he is proud.

Yes he is grateful that he no longer lives in shame, worthlessness and regret. But he soon realises that the chase isn't worth the prize if the prize's only surprise is deceit.

Yet again, rock bottom arises.

Jack is lost, unfulfilled and burnt out.

So I look within and realise, all that I did was great, but great for the wrong reasons.

It was driven by fear, ego, proving my worth and hoping to be validated.

To feel good enough, to be seen and heard, something which has always been lacking in Jack's life.

The penny drops.

All his life he has never felt good enough. So he chases to prove, chases to be seen and chases achievements to fill the void of not feeling good enough.

For months I felt lost. I couldn't find another way.

Until I looked up and my gaze fell on my daughter.

On the sofa. Laughing. Moments later crying. Moments later laughing back into crying.

And it hit me.

She is enough the way she is. Are you?

A whirlwind of emotions flooded me.

She doesn't have to prove herself, she is loved.
She doesn't have to achieve, she is loved.
She is accepted, loved and good enough the way she is.

So why not you? Why not me?

If I was already enough, would I stop proving my worth? Yes.
If I was already enough, would I stop trying to impress? Yes.

What else would I do and who else would I be, if I wasn't driven by this fear of not being enough?

He goes back to the drawing board and finds a new way. A way that breaks fear, detaches ego and lives from a place of alignment.

This way brings more energy, more drive, more passion, more purpose and more fulfillment than fear ever would.

Since then Jack has been on that journey. He falls back from time to time but he adjusts and aligns.

He realised that no amount of external success will fill the void internally.

No amount of validation will ever be enough.

Living from ego will be his downfall.

And he has nothing left to prove.

As you can see, Jack is not perfect. Jack is not exceptional. Jack is flawed. Jack doubts himself. Jack goes through challenges. Jack is just a human being who wakes up every day aiming to be better than the day before.

But I hope that you can learn from Jack's story that anything is possible for you.

That you can be at rock bottom and achieve incredible things but don't make those things your worth.

No achievement will make you feel worthy.
No validation will make you feel proud.
And no external success will fill that internal void and make you feel truly fulfilled.

But what will bring fulfillment in life is living in alignment, with purpose, with values, with knowing you're already good enough. And if you believe as I do, having a relationship with God.

The journey continues.

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