Lightarted Living: Don't Let Self Doubt and Insecurities Crush You

Lightarted Living: Don't Let Self Doubt and Insecurities Crush You: Don't Let Self Doubt Crush You Do you deal with self doubt? Welcome to the human race--we all do. While each of us may rela...

Don't Let Self Doubt and Insecurities Crush You

Don't Let Self Doubt Crush You

Do you deal with self doubt? Welcome to the human race--we all do.

While each of us may relate to self doubt differently, none of us can make a life without running into self doubt and other insecurities along the way. 

So rather than letting self doubt crush you--and stop you in your tracks--learn to embrace the uncomfortable feelings while continuing to take positive steps towards the life you want. 

Think of it as learning how to ride the self-doubt dragon in the direction you want to go.

Be Courageous

If you deal with self doubt and other insecurities, make a life decision to acknowledge the disquieting insecurities when they arise and commit to step past them into positive action. 

See yourself getting on the dragon and taking the reins.

Feel the Fear and Act Anyway

Courageous people aren't fearless.  They make the decision to step into life despite self doubt and fear. They feel the fear and do it anyway. 

Courageous people get on the dragon and ride it in the direction they want to go despite the fear.

To achieve your purpose and manifest your intentions, create a plan of action, with concrete steps and timelines to serve as your measuring sticks for positive action. Then keep taking steps--any steps--that fall within your plan of action. 

When fear or self doubt arise, step past it by actively engaging in your action plan, and then let yourself be surprised by life as you face your fears.

Self Doubters: Stop Overthinking Before You Spring into Action

To Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Actions

Sure, if your internal make up predisposes you to constantly doubt yourself it can be difficult to turn off that negative self talk. But you can counteract it by changing what you do about it. 

When you stop overthinking and choose to engage in positive action despite the doubts, over time you train yourself to see yourself as courageous despite the insecurities you feel.

You can have self doubts and also experience yourself as courageous.

Find a Stable Place Within Yourself

When you move into times of feeling unsure, stop and refresh yourself.  It's easier to act despite self doubt and fear when you're well rested. Both your mind and your body strengthen and become more resilient with rest. 

Whatever you're working on when self-doubt invades your thinking, put it down and step away from it to re-establish trust in your own instincts. 

You have within you everything you need to be successful.

Are You Spinning Your Wheels?

Look out for, and acknowledge, your tendency to stay busy as a way of avoiding anxiety. 

Looking busy just keeps you from getting where you want to go, and all that spinning of your wheels only serves to tire you and makes you feel even more insecure. 

Chose to only act on things of importance that truly makes a difference in getting you the life you want.

Both activity and inactivity can help you achieve your goals. Sometimes doing nothing is the best thing for you to do. When you provide yourself dawdle time you can focus your attention on how to work smarter by identifying activities of importance to engage in when you do take a step.


Questions to ask yourself: 

💓Does this activity advance my goals or serve as a distraction? 

💓How do my actions today directly get me where I want to go? 

💓What is the single-most important activity I can engage in to propel me forward?

💓Is there anything I'm doing that's just spinning my wheels?

Enriching the world is what you do every single day. 

Believe it. 

Wake with a heart to bring sunshine to everyone you encounter.

Let your life unfold in the most delightful and centered way, with many happy surprises!

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For more than 35 years, Susan Meyerott has been helping people lighten up and step over invisible barriers to change one step at a time. She speaks to your heart, puts you at ease, and makes letting go and moving forward with life easier than ever before.

                                                                                                    

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Lightarted Living: You Brave and Glorious Thing! I See You

Lightarted Living: You Brave and Glorious Thing! I See You: I See You.... Your beauty is breathtaking You brave and glorious thing! "You brave and glorious thing,...

You Brave and Glorious Thing! I See You

I See You....

Your beauty is breathtaking

You brave and glorious thing!

"You brave and glorious thing,

You've come so far.

I See You.

Your beauty is breath-taking."

Jeannette Encinias

What dragons have you been riding?

What situations have you faced that required all your courage?

The universe says 'I see you, you brave and glorious thing!'

You've got this! Just get on the dragon and ride!

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Lightarted Living: Butterflies of Hope

Lightarted Living: Butterflies of Hope: "Hope is being able to see there is  light despite the darkness." Desmond Tutu "We must accept finite disappoi...

Butterflies of Hope

"Hope is being able to see there is 

light despite the darkness."

Desmond Tutu

"We must accept finite disappointment

but never lose infinite hope."

Martin Luther King, Jr

"Hope is like the sun,

which, as we travel towards it,

casts the shadow of our burden behind us."

Samuel Smiles

"Let us, then, be up and doing,

with heart for any fate,

still achieving, still pursuing,

learn to labor and to wait."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You aren't here merely to make a living,

You're here to enrich the world,

You're here in order to enable the world to live more amply

With a finer spirit of Hope and Achievement."

Woodrow Wilson

"Wake at dawn with a winged heart

and give thanks for another day of loving."

Kahlil Gibran

"May our heart's garden of awakening

Bloom with hundreds of flowers."

Thich Nhat Hanh

  

Thanks to Pam Danielle for letting me play with her  butterfly photos.


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Lightarted Living: You Are Life's Song

Lightarted Living: You Are Life's Song: You Are Life's Song You are life's song flowing with the sea of life~ A musical instrument of rhythmic and soulful br...

You Are Life's Song

You Are Life's Song

You are life's song flowing with the sea of life~

A musical instrument of rhythmic and soulful breath, 

ebbing and flowing 

in waves of melodically satisfying and memorable song.

Gently, gently, 

humming, flowing, repeating in rhythmic succession~

 A cadenced breath surging to create harmonious overtones~

In a symphony of Life

that crescendos and swells;

Pulling you deeper into the loving depths of Life.

Flow with the sea of life.

💓Breathe 💓 Sing 💓 Flow 💓

You Are Life's Song Flowing with the Sea of Life

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Lightarted Living: Carrying the Weight of a Passionate Life~Jeannette...

Lightarted Living: Carrying the Weight of a Passionate Life~Jeannette...: Your Wild Bones Grow Luminous and Ripe "When you are 80 years old Your beauty rises in ways your cells can not imag...

Carrying the Weight of a Passionate Life~Jeannette Encinias

Your Wild Bones Grow Luminous and Ripe

"When you are 80 years old

Your beauty rises in ways your cells can not imagine now,"

"And your wild bones grow luminous and ripe"

"After carrying the weight of a passionate life."

Jeannette Encinias

Dedicated to dear friends ahead of me on this journey of life 

who inspire me with their strength and resiliency 

in living a passionate life--

Norma Wright, Judi Smith, Karen King, Brandy Carson, 
Mary Eaton, and Jeff and Lois Widen.

Many thanks to Sue Flynn for the barn owl photo, 

and to Lee Bryant for passing on Jeannette Encinias' poem. 

And of course many thanks to Jeannette Encinias for 

sharing her poem with the world.

Some days if I sit quietly and wait, 

beauty and wisdom land at my front door. 

I always open the door and let it in.

What about you?

Can you feel the luminosity and ripeness 

in your wild bones?

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Lightarted Living: That's the Wonder of Love

Lightarted Living: That's the Wonder of Love: The Wonder of Love All she knew was she felt all higgledy-piggledy inside. How wonderful it was to be loved. At fi...

That's the Wonder of Love

The Wonder of Love

All she knew was she felt all higgledy-piggledy inside.

How wonderful it was to be loved.

At first she didn't know what hit her.

She felt all topsy-turvy.

It was intoxicating.

Slowly a tousled tenderness emerged 

that hugged her soul

in a deep and tender embrace.

She belonged.

Feeling Higgledy-Piggledy

The Intoxicating Topsy-Turvy World of Love

She was all in a dither when love came along

and turned her world topsy-turvy. 

She didn't know what hit her as a tousled tenderness emerged, 

that made her feel all higgledy-piggledy inside. 

How wonderful it was to be loved.

How wonderful it was to love life.

How wonderful it was to be part of the great circus of life.

Believe in Your Own Magic

Life is a performance art 

that requires nerve and ingenuity

to manage the juggling and tumbling act 

for living and loving.  

There are risks involved in participating

in the high wire act, but the results are thrilling.

Be bold--take a leap--take a tumble--take a chance on love.

Be the acrobat of love who flies through life with the greatest of ease.

You are the Conjurer in the Circus of Life

You are not a passive participant sitting idle 

as the circus of life unfolds around you. 

You are the conjurer, the juggler, the magician and acrobat

making the magic happen.

Conjure Up a Big Tent Life!

Life is a circus. Enjoy the show!

"Magic, magic, all of life is magic

How can life be tragic when there's magic in the air?"

From 'Carnival' the musical 

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