DO YOU LIMIT YOU?
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DO YOU LIMIT YOU?
For many years, I know now, in my case the simple answer to the above question was yes.
In a more detailed thought process tells me that there were areas and occasions where I didn’t limit my own progress, but these were a minority. And when it came to limitations caused by a lack of self-esteem and self-love, but the time I was in my thirties, I placed huge limitations on my self.
Quite straight forward, you can’t give freely to others what you haven’t got for yourself, and I am shocked at how my lack of self-esteem and self-love negatively impacted my joy of life and cheated me out of relationships that could have been much richer and meaningful. Are you cheating yourself?
To a large extent, the way we think determines who we are and what happens to us.
We cannot harbour poisonous thoughts without their effects visibly showing in our lives. If we dwell on our inadequacy and ineffectiveness, for example, circumstances will prove us correct because we will invite self-defeating events to us.
On the other hand, replacing destructive thoughts with hope-filled, optimistic ones brings peaceful and confidence-producing circumstances to us. We will radiate competence and joy.
Over the past 16 years I have been on a journey to appreciate myself and be a positive influence to those I touch. I restate this is a journey and has no destination; it is a process of life recovery co-created by a power greater than myself and with the human help of many. It is a journey that has led to my not being my greatest limiting factor, but becoming a person who sees the possibilities. It is a spiritual wakening; a radical change in my attitude and for that I am grateful.
If you can relate to where I was and want to take the journey, please feel free to contact me through this posting or at www.hopeserenity.ca.
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