We Need to Talk About Your Deepest Fear. It’s Not What You Think.

“Your playing small does not serve the world”

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

We are paralysed by the seeping thoughts of other people. It’s those voices that stop us at our very core from doing the things that we want. So instead we convince ourselves that we do not want those things. Those things will mean sacrifices, hard-work, dedication and we get plenty of joy from our lives today so we don’t try. We don’t try and we carry on living a mediocre life. A life that serves us but it doesn’t fulfil us.

There is something about ambition that pulls us back. There is a string at the end of the ambition puppet and someone keeps pulling it. It’s like we don’t give ourselves permission to fly. We tell ourselves it’s…