What if you already ARE who you are supposed to be?
I have pondered the words for several days. Here I am, once again questioning what I need to do to get better- be more. It seems like I should be well past this. I mean I’m—well, old enough to know better.
Once again I feel ‘stuck’.
Often when I work with a coaching client to identify what is causing the ‘stuck’ feeling as they try to move forward, I use the metaphor like…
“Life is a Highway!”
We jump in an imaginary helicopter of sorts and get a bird’s eye view of all the lanes of their life: spiritual, professional, family, personal, physical, financial, social, etc.
Often when they take that perspective on their lives, they can tell which lane has a car with a flat tire that is causing slow down in the other lanes, or they see there was an accident that is causing a traffic jam every where else.
Or they might find that one lane, like the professional lane is going a different direction than the family lane. The difference may be slight, but in the long run, they are not going to end up in the same place. Just recognizing that helps my clients tweak a few changes while they are little to help them get where they want to go.
Good exercise, very helpful on many levels since we are all familiar with the process of planning a journey.
However, the exercise can be somewhat misleading. It can imply that who we are is out there somewhere.
But what if we already ARE who we are supposed to be?
What if we already have within ourselves what we need
to do what we were made to do?
David Benner recently challenged this thought as I reread his book, The Gift of Being Yourself . He writes,
Once we realize this {that we already are what we seek and where we long to arrive}, the nature of the journey reveals itself to be more one of awakening than accomplishment, more one of spiritual awareness than spiritual achievement.
Awakening!
Yes, I’ve experienced this many times during the decades of my life. Moments when I am suddenly aware that my skills and abilities – even my dreams are exactly what was needed.
But that’s truly what they are- moments. Just as sure as I know I’m the right person in the right place at the right time, I become unsure, or at least less sure. However they are not just fleeting moments.
If I’m paying attention, especially exquisite attention I’ve talked about in recent posts, then the truth of each moment teaches me something about myself.
Maybe I learn I have a strength I didn’t know- or need before that moment. Or perhaps I see that I can be very creative and resourceful in other moments.
Even after all my years of life, today I continue to awaken to who I was created to be.
What about you?
Where do you feel ‘stuck’?
What do you think you need to get ‘unstuck’?
What if you already ARE who you need to be and HAVE within yourself what you need to have to move forward?
If you believe this to be true, how does it change your behavior in this moment?
Here’s to both of us- Awakening! and living like we believe!
Be inspired to Be You!
