Musings at the 3 o'clock Hour

Hm. Soul Journey email says...

Honour yourself

"I’d gone through life believing in the strength and competence of others; never in my own. Now, dazzled, I discovered that my capacities were real. It was like finding a fortune in the lining of an old coat." -- Joan Mills

Take a moment to stop and think about what you give to the people and life around you. Don’t think about what you’re not doing right. Look instead at all you do that is a blessing.

Many of us continually beat ourselves up for not doing or being enough. But imagine for a moment that you are great just as you are. Feel the relief this brings! Now open to the possibility that this is not a daydream. It’s true! Believe it!

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves." -- Orison Swett Marden

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This is a HUGE part of what I've been working on- not only for the last sleepless hour, but for the last few months; believing in myself, my potential, and being content in what I find. It's so much harder to be HONESTLY content with ones' self, let me tell you! I'm great at bringing others up around me, making them realize their full potential, and then I turn around and degrade myself to the point of tears and self-pity.

THAT IS SOOO WRONG. In so many ways!

So, now I tell myself "I have enough, I do enough, I am enough." It's a mantra I picked up from one of my SARK books, I think... and it really speaks loudly! I have all that I need to make me happy. I do more than enough to make me happy, and I most definately am all that I need to be happy. I mean, why keep trying to reach for impossible, unattainable goals and always come up disappointed?!

Easier said than done, but I'm working on it, and getting SOOO much better than I used to be.

On that note, I'm going to try to sleep for about 40 minutes before my alarm goes off...