Do any of you work jobs that have a lot of rules? I haven't been involved in the corporate life too much, and a lot of my work has been very loosely regulated. However, last night I was at work and there was an auditor there.

Prior to the shift, our supervisor gave a little pep talk, telling us tips on how to succeed and what we need to watch out for particularly for what she's going to be looking at. I don't know much about auditors, I feel like they're sorta like watch birds who make sure that you follow the rules and don't have quite as much fun and freedom as you'd like.

The shift began and the funniest thing started to happen. Everyone was messing up. Super obvious mistakes, basically nothing could go right.

Now, this auditor is just a little old lady with a raincoat on standing outside in the rain watching us work, taking some photos with her little digi cam. Harmless. And yet we can't do a darn thing on point. Everything was taking twice the amount of time it usually takes and the simple teamwork that usually happens completely fell apart.

It wasn't until we finished up and I was walking back inside that I just started laughing to myself realizing what just happened. It was so funny to me that things that we usually do so simply became huge stumbling blocks when we overthought about them.

Immediately I started to relating this to the entrepreneurial world and thought about how often we try to please people and do the right thing when really that ends up backfiring.

Answer these questions:

Are you a people pleaser? Do you do certain things so that your parents are proud of you or so that you look good to your friends? Do you find yourself often wondering what people are thinking about what you're doing before you start? If you answered yes to any of these, which I'm guessing you did because most people will, it could be your downfall.

I know that sounds drastic, but I'm serious!

Listen, going back to the night I just described, like I said, on regular evenings everyone's able to function like a well-oiled machine; nobody thinks twice about what they're doing, everyone's really confident in their abilities and what they're doing, and things pretty much go off without a hitch. However, when one person comes in whose opinion we care about, everyone's confidence drops almost 100% they suddenly and unreasonably become unsure of themselves and their own skills and begin to make mistakes.

How crazy is this! Now I'm not saying that an auditor's opinion doesn't matter in this occasion, instead, what I'm saying is that, if we had kept our confidence and done what we knew we could, everything would have gone off perfectly like usual.

Let's put this in perspective for a second and realize that there are two ways we can go about everything.

Since I'm an artist I'll compare this to the art world, but please put yourself in whatever world is yours.

So say you're an aspiring artist but you went to school for something else. You're ready to put out some art into the world, but when you tell your parents they ask you how your job search is coming. You get that hindered feeling in the back of your mind wondering if you should be focusing on something else besides art right now. And then you think back to college; a few of your professors didn't think you were very creative and weren't afraid to let you know that. If they didn't even think you were that great, that probably speaks for the rest of the world, right? And then you realize that if you post your art, your friends will all see it and might take easy jabs at you. All of your excitement for the art piece you were about to show begins to go down the drain. Your confidence drops and you begin rethinking everything. What a downer. 

Now, imagine you've just created something and are ready to put it out to the world, but this time think about if you didn't care what one pers...