It’s time to make peace with your self-doubt
Do any of these sound familiar?
“I’m not good enough”
“I don’t know enough”
“I’m not strong enough”
The list goes on… What is the statement that rears its head for you? We all have at least one, one niggly refrain that voices itself every so often, or perhaps a lot of the time. I think it is a very normal, human thing to have sentences like these that float in and out of our minds. In case you’re wondering, mine is the ‘I don’t know enough’ one…
What I am learning is that I don’t necessarily have to silence these statements, or stamp them out for good; I can make peace with them and learn to greet them with a smile and still get on with doing what needs to be done. Something along the lines of “feel the fear and do it anyway”.
What I want to talk about today goes right to the heart of all these “I am not enough” statements. I want to share it with you in the hope that it can start to ameliorate the potency of your particular phrase.
This is what I want you to know, not just on an intellectual basis but a cellular basis – by that I mean I want it to sink into every cell and fibre of your being! I want you to sit with these words, drink them in, repeat them internally, out loud if that suits, and let them truly percolate: (more…)