Today’s Mandala Message: I am good enough
This week I’m working through Principle #33 from Jack Canfield’s “The Success Principles” entitled “Transcend Your Limiting Beliefs”. I set my intention today to ponder overcoming a third limiting belief. As a reminder from the 23-186 post, Canfield suggests making a list of any (and all) limiting beliefs that are limiting us. He then offers the following steps to overcoming limiting beliefs:
- Choose a limiting belief from the list
- How does it limit you?
- Declare how you want to be, act, or feel
- Create a turnaround statement that affirms or gives you permission to be, act, or feel in this new way
(1) My limiting belief for today is a culmination of several beliefs that basically sum up to :”I’m not good enough”. Every day I catch myself saying some variation of this belief to myself. “I’m not good enough to be in that play.”, “I’m not good enough to play the piano for other people.”, “My art isn’t good enough”, “My abilities aren’t good enough”, “What I do isn’t good enough”, “What I have to say isn’t good enough”, and so on.
(2) This is another one of those limiting beliefs that keeps me from putting myself out there. I’m overwhelmed with self-statements like “How can I put myself out there when so many other people can do what I do so much better than me”? “I can’t do ________ until it’s perfect.” “This will never be good enough”. Perfectionism tends to take over. It also limits me from learning and/or trying new things unless I can do it good enough from the start.
(3) I want to feel like I am enough, that what I am is good enough. I want to allow myself to be good enough in all that I do and say. I want to feel comfortable and confident in knowing that I am enough. I want to stand tall in my enough-ness, that who I am is enough.
(4) My turnaround statement: “I am good enough. I am enough even as I strive for excellence in all that I am and in all that I do.”
A good mindfulness practice would be to sit in your enough-ness.
So how about you? Do you at times feel like you’re not good enough? What are you basing that on? What needs to change in order to feel that you are good enough?
“You deserve to be
— Kathy Brown
the protagonist of your own
wonderful, bizarre,
terrifying little life.
If you decide you are enough,
you are enough.
You don’t need to wait
for some grand external validation
of your worth before you offer
your kindest heart to yourself.”
Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
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