You Are Good Enough.

The single greatest threat to any person who seeks to move from a place of mediocrity in life to a place of greatness is the mind. You may have desires to make a career move, you may have health-related goals or goals to start a business or write a book. Think for a minute. What has stopped you? I’m willing to bet that it is your negative thoughts that have stopped you or slowed you down. You may have thoughts that you are not talented enough or not smart enough. Maybe you have thoughts that you have not lived the perfect life and people will remember that.

I’m writing this to remind you to believe. Believe in yourself.

You are good enough. You have the power, the strength, the ability to achieve whatever it is you want to in life. Like millions of other people, I have dealt with low self-esteem, low self-confidence, and going after a dream feeling, at times, alone. I am not writing this to conjure up some sense of sympathy or having a pity-party, rather, I want you to know that we all have imperfect pasts. We all have tarnished reputations. We all have questionable characteristics and, at times, impure motives.

Here are a few things to remember when you think you are just not good enough:

1.   Don’t compare yourself to others.

Think of it this way, the people you compare yourself to compare themselves to others. We all have a tendency to compare ourselves to others. However, I can guarantee that those people who appear to have it all together, do not. We are all human beings. Beautifully imperfect human beings with challenges and triumphs.

Don’t compare yourself to others. You are the best version of you there is. Your life is about breaking your own limits and outgrowing your own limits. You are the only one in the race to be the best you.

2.   There is more right with you than wrong

“Until you stop breathing, there’s more right with you than wrong with you” Jon Kabat-Zinn.

We sometimes fixate on bad things that happen in our lives. Even one difficult situation can overpower all the good things if we’re not deliberate about recognizing them and realizing how blessed we are. The reality is that there is often more right with our lives. For example, there are people looking out for us who love and care for us. No, it is not a perfect world but there is a lot of beauty in this world. We have to be willing to see and appreciate it.

I challenge you to look around today and choose to see the good things. Don’t let the tiny things that went wrong distract from your pleasure. Joy is in allowing yourself to enjoy your blessings.

3.   If your reading this you are still here and able to try again.

If you have no other positive to think of at this moment, you have this one: “I’m still here and able to try again. Be positive! Be patient! Be persistent! Remember the strongest people are not always the people who win, but the people who don’t give up even when they have lost.

Believe in you. You are good enough.The fact that you have made it this far is amazing. Your life is a gift. Cherish it. You are magnificently talented. Appreciate that and show the world what all you can do.