You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection.
Sharon Salzberg
And, I would add to today’s quote, respect. We deserve our respect!!
In the last blog, we learned how taking responsibility for our circumstances actually provides us a way out of them. But what if – even if we do take responsibility – we never seem to achieve our goals? Today, we’ll talk about one possible cause of this mismatch and how to overcome it.
With this limiting attitude, regardless of how much progress we make, we always feel like we fall short.
It could be that somewhere deep inside, we don’t believe that we deserve success. We feel that we are not good enough, smart enough, or lovable enough to be worthy of the successes we seek.
This is a very devious, insidious way of thinking about ourselves.
We believe that others are more worthy of success, but when we look at our own lives, we refuse to believe that we should experience those same things. This can happen in any realm. We feel out of step, out of touch with whatever may lead to success or has led us to success in the past. We feel like frauds. We feel like impostors.
This can lead us to self-sabotage. When we start to get close to success, we start to do things that limit us. Maybe we are even afraid of succeeding, and so the closer we get to success, the more afraid we become.
Our limiting thought is that we are unworthy of success.
This seriously limits the progress we can make. After all, we can’t achieve big things if we don’t think that we deserve them. We won’t be able to manage the motivation to keep going if we feel unworthy of success.
You absolutely must rewrite this belief!
Current Limiting Belief:
● “I am unworthy of success.”
Empowering Beliefs:
● “I am inherently worthy of success.”
● “I am valuable simply because of who I am.”
● “I deserve success and all the benefits that come with it.”
Ask yourself this question: Who is worthy of success?
The answer is EVERYONE, including you. There is no reason that you shouldn’t experience success.
Remember that!
Each of us is worthy and valuable simply because of who we are. We do not have to do anything to make ourselves worthy of success, or to prove our worthiness. We are worthy of succeeding simply because we are ourselves.
Chat soon!
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