When we let go of what we believe that we need to be, we give ourselves the room to grow into who we actually are.
In our modern world, we have a bias as human beings to suspect that we always have to be something more. We have got to be prettier, funnier, richer and everything else in between. But all of these things that we believe that we really have to be stop us from really expressing who we are deep inside. We constantly measure ourselves against others and create false masks for ourselves so other people will like us more. Thing is, after a while, these masks always fall off and people end up seeing us for our true selves anyways.
It's a ton less complicated, and far more fun at the end, to be precisely who you are without any apologies.
This isn't to claim that you shouldn't target to enhance your life. Nevertheless if you really are going to go down the trail of personal development and deepening, you've got to truly focus on doing it for yourself. In truth, that really is the only way that viable change occurs. When you begin developing for people other than yourself or because someone just told you to do it, you don't essentially end up believing in what you're doing. Instead, development becomes something you cross off a list a lifetime journey.
Be grateful for what you have right now and who you are and if you happen to be looking to take a journey that could change you for the better, then develop for yourself. Develop because you know that it's the right thing to do and that it will manufacture a better future for yourself.
In the end, if we stay true to our own paths and believe in ourselves, we are truly capable of anything.
In our modern world, we have a bias as human beings to suspect that we always have to be something more. We have got to be prettier, funnier, richer and everything else in between. But all of these things that we believe that we really have to be stop us from really expressing who we are deep inside. We constantly measure ourselves against others and create false masks for ourselves so other people will like us more. Thing is, after a while, these masks always fall off and people end up seeing us for our true selves anyways.
It's a ton less complicated, and far more fun at the end, to be precisely who you are without any apologies.
This isn't to claim that you shouldn't target to enhance your life. Nevertheless if you really are going to go down the trail of personal development and deepening, you've got to truly focus on doing it for yourself. In truth, that really is the only way that viable change occurs. When you begin developing for people other than yourself or because someone just told you to do it, you don't essentially end up believing in what you're doing. Instead, development becomes something you cross off a list a lifetime journey.
Be grateful for what you have right now and who you are and if you happen to be looking to take a journey that could change you for the better, then develop for yourself. Develop because you know that it's the right thing to do and that it will manufacture a better future for yourself.
In the end, if we stay true to our own paths and believe in ourselves, we are truly capable of anything.
About the Author:
Evan Sanders is the author of The Words Of Encouragement, a website dedicated to bringing the best quotes, motivational content on the web, and blogs all to one place. Dive into these gratitude quotes for some serious perspective on what it means to live a life in appreciation.
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