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Often, when we are trying to improve our lives, we will get the nagging feeling that we are somehow unworthy. It’ll be little thoughts like “you don’t belong here” or “who do you think you are” or maybe even “you aren’t good enough”. What utter nonsense. Everyone deserves to make the most out of their lives :
- Remember that nothing…..nothing you’ve done is completely unforgivable. We all have done things that we aren’t proud of, and we’ve all had some learning and growing to do. Don’t use that as an excuse to be less than what you are.
- Think about “It’s a Wonderful Life”. A man is given the opportunity to see how the world would have turned out if he’d never been born. The problem with refusing to forge ahead and improve your life is that you aren’t really living your life. Would you rather your loved ones live in Bedford Falls or Pottersville?
- Not working to improve your life will not only prevent you from contributing to the world, it can actually result in your doing something that brings harm (think about how criminal activity tends to stick around).
- No matter what your belief system, there is no law against trying to become a better person. No matter how “unworthy” you think you may be, don’t dismiss that you can become “worthy” by persevering.
- Hard work though it is, when other people see you working to make more out of your life, it will have an effect on them. People are influenced by what they see around them. When people see effort, they have hope. The more hope there is in the world, the more people will try to make things better.
- If you believe in a higher power, it would be difficult to believe that such a force is interested in keeping you down. What would be the point? Allow me to offer a quote to help explain:
Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators, the creator seeks - those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. - Thus spoke Zarathustra, Fredrick Nietzsche
- You are a VIP. Seriously. I don’t care what you’ve done. You have divine heritage. You can call it being a child of God or an Idea of the Mind, or a reflection of cosmic light, it all boils down to the same thing. You are a divine being simply by being.
- As such, disrespecting yourself is a blasphemy against that higher power. You deserve to treat yourself right, and by extension, treat the rest of the world right.
- Everybody starts at zero. Nobody you’ve met, no matter how accomplished, no matter what they were handed (or not handed) in life, still had to get out and make it happen. Don’t make the mistake that accomplishment simply happens of its own. You have to start the flow of good in your life. Once you have momentum, the flow of good keeps coming, but you have to keep going.
- Last but not least, if you know what your purpose is, but let your feelings of unworthiness get in your way, you are in fact turning your back on yourself and everything you know by not forging ahead. When you find your purpose, that is a sacred trust. That is the will of the divine flowing through you. If it were me (and it has been) failure to live my purpose would be less unnerving than shoving aside feelings of unworthiness and pressing forward.
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(Thanks to arqsamuel for the image.)
