What do I mean by that?
Maybe I can demonstrate what I mean through a poem written by Marianne Williamson. This poem was used by Nelson Mandela in his Inauguration speech in 1994. For me the words are extremely powerful and inspiring.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves WHO AM I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be!
Our playing small does not save the world.
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking,
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
You are born to make manifest to the glory of God that is within us;
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other’s permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears,
our presence automatically liberates others.”
These are inspiring words, aren’t they? Let them inspire you to really go all out and reach whatever it is that you dream of. Why? Because you deserve to reach it, you deserve to live your dreams! This is what we are here for. We have just “forgotten” it while life came in the way.During the course of our life we seem to forget all the big dreams we had when we were young and believed we could do anything. The question is why does life get in the way? Why do so many of us arrive at a stage where there seem to be more obligations than motivations?
The main reason is that most of us have let ourselves be “programmed” for mediocrity. We have not been told or taught that we can be powerful beyond measure. Since early childhood we are conditioned to swim with the swarm, to stay in the crab basket we call humanity and there will always be enough people around us who will remind us of it – but in spite of all this, we have a choice at any one moment of our life.
We really can do what we are here to do – if only we do!To your success!
It goes like this:
I am sure you heard the saying “If you believe it you can achieve it”. And that is really true. You can chose to live your life in mediocrity or you can chose to live the life of your dreams. If you are not 100 % happy with the way life is going, it is up to you to do something about it. Doing nothing is a decision, the same as changing things is.
Let’s talk further about that next time
Barbara Hofmeister