Call yourself out on your bullshit.

Our bullshit never starts out as bullshit. It begins with a piece of adversity or jealousy or insecurity that snowballs into a ridiculous story we tell ourselves — and as we tell it and retell it over and over again the snowball eventually starts to stink.

Here are some bullshit stories we tell ourselves to mask our own jealousy, insecurity and unhappiness:

• Dave got the…