I once heard a powerful line that always stuck with me:
There is NOTHING you can do to either increase OR decrease your worthiness as a human.
No amount of success, money in your account, or Instagram following will make you more worthy! AND no amount of failure, missed job promotions, or unprofitable ventures will take away from your value. You are good enough, you are valuable, and you are so worthy!
It’s BECAUSE you are worthy, you’re able to accomplish and enjoy wonderful things and shine your light into the world.
I see the sense of “unworthiness” play into so many people’s lives. We are taught to believe that we have to earn everything, and if we don’t get what we are truly after, it’s because we aren’t “enough.”
Can you relate? This is an insane, vicious cycle that ultimately leads us to self-loathing, depression, anxiety, perfectionism, apathy, and sadness.
The truth about unworthiness is that it simply isn’t real. There are no qualities or characteristics about you that exclude you from any said things that you desire in life. It’s simply a limited way of thinking, which excuses you from really putting both feet forward and going for what you want in life.
I believe we tend to fall into unworthiness as a way to bypass some of the major feelings that we have about ourselves, mostly our inability to really love ourselves. Think about it, if we loved ourselves in a full and complete way, we would always think that we could live the life and have the things that we deeply want, right?
Your ability to achieve your desires has nothing to do with your worthiness and everything to do with your thoughts, actions, and beliefs.
I encourage you to start the journey of banishing any unworthy sentiments you have about yourself. You were given this exact life for a reason. None of it has anything to do with whether you were worthy of it or not.
We all have the capability to do the things we want to do, to be the people we want to be, and to create the lives we wish to live. However, it starts with us, and cleaning up the way we think about ourselves.
There is NOTHING you can do to either increase OR decrease your worthiness as a human.
It’s time to sit down and list all the things that make you feel less than, or unworthy.
I am not unworthy because…
- I hear others make more money than me,
- I fail,
- I quit the thing that was no longer serving me,
- I’m having tech issues
- Someone says something mean to me
- Someone gives me advice on how to do better
Keep this list on your phone or post it on your mirror or fridge to remind yourself that situations and outcomes do not determine your worthiness.
I hope this practice helps you release any of the feelings that might be holding you back from the things you truly desire in life. I want you to know that you are worthy of your authentic dreams, desires and goals, and that it is possible for you. Please remember this, always.
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