The Wealth Spa: Are you stepping up to your own brilliance?
Wendy Piersall
· 1 year ago
Thanks Elizabeth! :)
I really enjoyed writing that post. It stewed for several days in my brain all the while changing my own ways of thinking and acting.
Don't you love it when a blog post can have such an effect on us - both as the author and as the reader? :)
Elizabeth Potts Weinstein
· 1 year ago
Yes, and it's so amazing how that's exactly what I needed to read that day. So many of us are in that same place!
~ Elizabeth
Rita
· 1 year ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head with this post. If you think about it from the person's point of view who gives the compliment, by rejecting their compliment you are actually telling them they are wrong.
Trisha
· 1 year ago
"Are you stepping up to your own brilliance?"
No
"Are you still playing small? "
Yes
But - I'm working on this and hope to fix it soon!
And not that its an excuse, but I think a lot of us were taught to be so humble, etc. that it can be hard to readily accept a compliment.
karina
· 1 year ago
I hope that your situation will improve. Indeed your blog is great.
Home Party Solution
· 1 year ago
I believe it was Nelson Mandela (and I could be wrong) that said the biggest fear in life is the fear of being successful.
Something like that.
The gist is that we're so consumed with the "what if's" of being successful that we actually self-sabotage because we're afraid we can't measure up to greatness if (not when) we achieve it.
What if it's a fluke? What if I don't really deserve it? What if...?
The sad reality is that these ideas are jackhammered into our brains at such an early age, that we struggle - sometimes for a lifetime - to overcome.
It's enculturated into us. Into society.
I for one am a victim, and battle each day with people that say "you can't" or "you shouldn't" or "I wouldn't if I were you" regardless of the construct.
That's when I work like heck to remember the (gramatically incorrect) words of the Captains of the starship Enterprise:
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I really enjoyed writing that post. It stewed for several days in my brain all the while changing my own ways of thinking and acting.
Don't you love it when a blog post can have such an effect on us - both as the author and as the reader? :)
~ Elizabeth
No
"Are you still playing small? "
Yes
But - I'm working on this and hope to fix it soon!
And not that its an excuse, but I think a lot of us were taught to be so humble, etc. that it can be hard to readily accept a compliment.
Something like that.
The gist is that we're so consumed with the "what if's" of being successful that we actually self-sabotage because we're afraid we can't measure up to greatness if (not when) we achieve it.
What if it's a fluke?
What if I don't really deserve it?
What if...?
The sad reality is that these ideas are jackhammered into our brains at such an early age, that we struggle - sometimes for a lifetime - to overcome.
It's enculturated into us. Into society.
I for one am a victim, and battle each day with people that say "you can't" or "you shouldn't" or "I wouldn't if I were you" regardless of the construct.
That's when I work like heck to remember the (gramatically incorrect) words of the Captains of the starship Enterprise:
"to boldly go where no one has gone before"
-Lisa