You know more than you imagine!

I was talking recently about the need to trust ourselves more. We really do know a lot more than we think! We’re a lot further on than we think!

We may feel stuck and think we know nothing but how true is that?

Really?

Do you know nothing?

Have you taken no steps at all to pursue your vocation? 

I know it can be easy to feel defeated! You look around you and everyone seems to have it together except you.

If you make the mistake of spending time in social media, you may well feel totally hopeless! Comparing yourselves with others is never much use, and comparing yourself with that part of themselves that people choose to put out on their social media pages - that they’re having the most wonderful time holidaying in amazing places, meeting amazing people, over-achieving all over themselves!

That’s bound to make you feel small and insignificant, and it’s a very good reason to limit your time on social media to a matter of minutes a day, or week.

Come here and read what I say, by all means! 😁

But you don’t need to be filling your head with feelings of insufficiency and comparisonitis.

Just because you don’t boast about what you know and what you can do, doesn’t mean that you don’t know anything and you can’t do anything!

What it all comes down to is that you know more or less what you want to do, but you don’t feel able to do it.

And what’s the common name for this?

FEAR

👉 You’re afraid of trying.

👉 Afraid of falling on your face,

👉 Afraid of losing money,

👉 Afraid of what people will say,

👉 Afraid it will all be a waste of effort.

But the thing is -

How will you know unless you try?!

As I’m fond of repeating, 

We either get the result we want or the lesson we need to learn.

That means either what we try works or we learn that it doesn’t work - so we need to try something else: just like a baby learning to walk.

He doesn’t just get up one day and walk perfectly! There’s a lot of trial and error, falling down, banging his head, bruising those chubby knees,

There’s frustration.

There’s annoyance.

There’s disappointment.

 But you know what? There’s also determination!

Does the baby give up? Not at all!

He is driven to get those legs under him and get where he wants to go fast, and he keeps on until he does it! 

Once he gets walking he can polish his skills - start running, jumping, doing cartwheels, rejoicing in his ability! But the first stage can be painful.

Trying to do something you haven’t done before and persevering through thick and thin. That can be painful.

Do that - and you’ll get there just like you did when you were a few months old.

You didn’t question whether it was ever possible! You just did it and that’s what you can do now.