What do you do when someone tries to make you feel uncomfortable about being you or living your dreams?
- Do you stuff what you feel and toe the line? This may be what you’ve been taught to do from infancy. An underlying fear may be that if you don’t fit in, you won’t survive.
- If someone says you’re stupid, does the crowd-pleasing clown emerge. Or did you learn to dumb down and hide your brilliance?
- If the family wants you to follow their traditions, do you do whatever it takes to belong, be loved and not make waves? Even if it means you just get crumbs of love. Even if you’re drowning in what floats their boat.
You’ll never be able to please others enough as they’ll keep changing the hoop they want you to jump through.
Do you desire to live, I mean really live? That includes not living to please other people. Instead, do you make choices that make you feel happy… and do you even know what makes you happy?
Are you not living your truth, what’s in your heart, because you’re afraid of or uncomfortable with possible consequences and what others might think?
Instead, discover what makes you happy, and take time for you, your goals and your life.
If you’re just getting by, living to please others, you’re existing instead of living your best life.
To live more fully, stop giving your power away.
Some ways you can give away your power are:
- Trying to please others and being worried about what they’ll think. Instead, follow your inner guidance, your heart, your gut.
- Living in worry and fear. Instead of thinking what’s wrong or what could go wrong, think about what’s right or could go right.
- Talking about others; blaming and complaining about them. Instead, take responsibility for your actions and life.
- Feeling sorry for yourself; maybe feeling damaged from your past, regardless of circumstances. Instead, look at but don’t feel disheartened by “what is,” and make new choices and actions.
- Avoiding situations or not telling the truth. Instead, speak up – at least to yourself!
- Making excuses, aka reasons, not to live your dreams. Instead, stand up for your passion and take action, even small steps. If it doesn’t work one way, do it another.
Don’t make yourself wrong, feel guilty or have regrets about what you haven’t done or your past. What you learned brought you to where you are today.
Instead, make a decision to make new choices. You are so powerful that when you say, “I choose,” you set forces in motion to redirect your life.
Talk with your soul to discover the best path for you:
- Go within and ask your questions.
- Listen and write your answers.
- Ask for clarity and/or action steps to take.
- Take action – consistently.
Take a moment now to breathe and do these four steps.
The Beginning
Edited excerpt from my Soulgoals’ post, May 19, 2011
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