Are You Here To Be A Successful Author? 161point. I realized that I was waiting for the world to acknowledge me
when I had not even acknowledged myself.
One of my core beliefs is that our willingness to acknowledge
ourselves on a daily basis builds our self-confidence and self-esteem
giving us the courage to take the risks that we really want to take. When
you acknowledge yourself on a daily basis, you now have permission to
go to places you never thought were possible. I ask people to acknowledge
themselves a minimum of five times a day, and to do what I call stretch,
risk, or die. You must acknowledge yourself for something that’s
uncomfortable, not just for going to the gym if you already do that every
day. It doesn’t have to be an action; it could be a new thought. Just a new
thought is scary for some people. You’ll know you’re fearless when you’re
willing to be comfortable being uncomfortable. That’s the name of the
game! If you are comfortable being uncomfortable, then your feeling of
being uncomfortable, which is fear based, no longer stops you.
If you could give advice to those who are still searching for their
life’s purpose, what would it be?
The answer to that question has already been revealed to you and the
only reason you can’t see it is because fear is covering up your ability to
actually access it. Everybody has passion, everybody has a purpose,
everybody has a life force within them, and everyone has what I call an
essential nature that is attempting to express itself at every turn. You
either express that essential nature through freedom, fearlessness, or it
gets thwarted by fear. So if you’re not living your purpose, if you’re not
expressing your passion, then you’re not self-expressing, you’re not
accepting your self, and part of that is you’re not embracing your
humanity. You’re caught up in the fear-based mentality of “I’m not good
enough” and you’re waiting for the world to give you permission.
The bottom line is this: the only thing stopping you is fear. When
you start to realize that no one is stopping you, no thing is stopping you,
no thought is stopping you, and no behavior is stopping you, it’s just
fear, then the shame fades away, and the fear moves aside, and you’re
able to listen to what’s waiting to be heard for your ears alone. Fear
keeps a bunch of wax in your ears.
Most people aren’t doing the work to eradicate fear. What they’re
doing is trying to find their purpose and passion, but too many people do
not have the purpose and passion that’s really right for them. They were
given to them by somebody else, because they don’t understand that fear