Life can be crushing at the bottom and it can also be stifling at the top. The sad thing about life is that we often become obsessed with status, position, acquiring, gaining, succeeding. Much of this comes about from good intent and from the perspective of seeking to grow, develop, stretch ourselves, discover our possibilities and sometimes it emerges through necessity to continue to evolve. But very often we seek the power and ‘stuff that we gather’ through a sense of lack. From sense that we’ve only made it when we have left here and got there.
The other interesting thing is that to some extent most of us tend to buy into this idea of how life is. So it means that many people feel worthless because they have not ‘made it’ and meanwhile many who have ‘made it’ feel worthless because they are still the same little person who lacks self belief, confidence and esteem within who continues to feel a fraud when they have arrived. And upon arrival there are all sorts of additional challenges. How do I stay at the top? How do I compete or be worthy of those others at the top? Do these people respect me because of who I am or because of what I have and where I stand? Often there are the pressures of expectation and performance that come with having a top position on the board, on the telly, on the team or wherever it may be.
Be it that you are an athlete, Chief Executive, politician, pop star or presenter this short video may chime with you. It will also invite you to gently let all the thoughts and fear just be so that you can ‘become who you are’.
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