Balanced Life: You Are "Enough" As You Are!
It often seems like it is part of life for people to sometimes feel like they are "not good enough."
I'm not talking about this in the perspective of having a skill, but in the perspective of who you are at a human level.
It's often one of the ways people are a little "misdirected" by the whole idea of self-improvement. Self-improvement invites you to become the best version of who you are... but it's not about becoming someone else.
The real problems set in when we start to blame ourselves for our failings or shortcomings by resorting to thoughts of "not being enough" to be loveable, successful, content or whatever it is that drives our being.
It's not unusual for me to be talking to a counseling client who feels the need to be "more" something that's actually not a readily changeable attribute.
We Tell Ourselves "Stories"
"I'm just not ambitious enough to succeed as (fill in the blank)."
That's a "story" we tell, in which we attribute a successful outcome to ambition, rather than any number of other variable factors like hard work, study, cleverness and so forth.
Chances are that whatever the "it" you're trying to reach might be, lots of people with less ambition than you have managed to succeed.
However, it can be quite a challenge to overcome our patterns of not feeling like we're "enough!"
One of the ways we can often move forward is by pausing and asking the sometimes unpleasant question of whether or not we really can know that what we believe is true.
How do you know that you are not enough? Or is saying so merely a sort of "cover story" to mask a deeper fear of taking a certain action?
Without doubt, the pattern can be hard to break out of... and we may have to look at parts of our personality we'd rather not look directly at. But it's worth it! Because afterwards... suddenly we start realizing that we ARE — in fact — enough!
Have a beautiful week, and Bright Blessings to all!
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