Are you sure you’re not enough?

I often see people needing to remind themselves that they’re enough.

Some even print out posters proclaiming “I am enough” and place it on their fridge or at their workplace, or on their mirror.

Enough for what? For whom? In what? To achieve what?

We have to convince ourselves that we’re not good enough before anyone can make us feel that way.

When you focus on whether you’re enough, you lose sight of the fact that you’re literally reducing the entirety of who you are to what you think is enough about you in only one domain of your life.

That’s usually in our social spaces.

That’s how we become defined by what we think others think of us, or what we think of ourselves through our self-criticism.

You are enough of whatever you choose to be, but first you need to see yourself clearly.

See yourself realistically, not through rose coloured spectacles, or affirmations of things you know is not true but want must be true.

The problem to solve is not to be enough, it’s to understand what you’re doing that may be counter productive to who you want to be or what you want to achieve.

Start there. Start by observing the effectiveness of your approach, your effort, your strategy, etc.

Then do something about those parts that are not as effective as they need to be.

Now you’re solving the right problems.

Being enough was always just a distraction.

Own your life.

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