No More Lack of Confidence, Enough is Enough

Have you reached the point of saying ‘this lack of confidence is destroying me’’ or are you still marooned on the island of ‘I am not worthy’?

An island that is unreachable by air or sea, surrounded by shark invested waters and full of lack;

• not clever enough
• not brave enough
• not good enough
• not confident enough
• not understanding enough
• not fit enough,
• not determined enough
• not motivated enough
• not happy enough
• not talented enough
• not deserving enough
• not worthy enough
• not intelligent enough
• not sexyenough

…yikes, stop, look, enough is enough!

Luckily for some of us we manage to get of the island of ‘I am not worthy’ long enough to discover that we don’t ever want to go back.

For some sadly, this island is a place where people reside for weeks, months, years, and, sadly, lifetimes!

If you are on this make believe ‘island’, you may have been given the map of your internal landscape by your parents, teachers, peers, past relationships, friends.

You may have been asked to measure your worth against their standards and expectations.

You may have been subjected to verbal assaults such as ‘why can’t you be like your sister/brother’, or ‘well, obviously on this occasion, your best is just not good enough, or ‘you must try harder to be something’.

It’s appalling that these comments can determine the outcomes of our futures, heard often ‘enough’ these statements can become so rooted that they damage our future happiness, health and well-being, determine whether we are good ‘enough’ to set and reach goals.

You Are Enough

Do you sometimes feel that you have been defined by other peoples standards and ideas of what they think you should be?

Have you allowed them to walk around your map deciding what you are good at and what you are not?

As an adult you are completely responsible for you, as such you have full accountability over how you think about you.  You have enough potential within you to undo the wrongs that have been placed upon you, and you have the capacity to accept yourself as you are, and yes, that comes with warts and all.

Acceptance

You can accept the fact that you have faults, weaknesses, and shortcomings.

Of course there are people out there that perhaps are smarter, cleverer, happier, more satisfied, than perhaps what you are, so what, do you or should you care?
That does not mean that you are any less of a human being.

If there is one ‘enough’ that perhaps you may want to keep it’s this: ‘I am only enough as my thoughts’. Ready to get of the island?