Another Simple Question

Along the same lines as my last post  I asked a friend of mine to name three things that she would like to be. She said she would like to be successful so I asked her if she was able to dress, feed and care for herself. Can she nurture/support herself, does she have friends and can she learn anything she needs to learn. She said yes to all of my questions so I said then you are already successful so you must mean that you want to be more successful. Why did I say that? Because people are often too hard on themselves and they fail to acknowledge the successes that they do have. When you minimize the things that you have mastered your confidence suffers and you start to focus on the things that you haven’t done or mastered. But everything in life is an acquired skill, almost nothing is perfect or even super good without practice or mastery.

So yes, today’s lesson is to take a look in the mirror and pat yourself on the back. You may have goals you haven’t yet reached but as you know from your past experiences, those are just a matter of time and practice because you can do, be and have whatever you choose. You can and you know you can.