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I’m not cut out to be……

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All too often we’re told, or we tell ourselves, based on some ‘truth’ that we or others have cooked up, based normally on nothing than others irrelevant views of us, that we are not cut out to be ….. whatever. A singer, a writer, a sales person, run, run our own business, climb mountains and so on.

For sure we can not be good at everything and certain things may not match our skills, experience and so on.

No matter what others will tell us or what we tell ourselves, we all have a thing that we love, that ignites us, that makes us super happy when we do it, that we are good at.

However, it does not matter what that is, what others think of us doing that or how long it takes in life to discover that one thing. Enjoy the journey of finding out what it is and no worries if you don’t, it does not matter.

As one of my favourite person says ‘no matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging’ – Brene Brown.

We are cut out to be us and it’s not about what we achieve, we are all, good enough, already.

Lightning learning

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If you want to change something, then you need to find a way of accelerating your learning.

You can only accelerate your learning by doing more.

Doing more comes from building a habit.

It’s the building the habit that is the challenge initially. However, armed with a real deep down desire to change something, the commitment to do the daily habit forming routines, to do the practicing, to cut the new pathways in the brain, to build the momentum, comes easier and easier the longer down the path of change that you go.

Learning like anything else, gets better with practice, so as time passes the learning ‘muscle’ gets stronger and stronger, and you learn faster and faster.

You will reach a point of lightning learning compared to where you previously were and the more you continue, the more the compound effect takes place.

Like all things that are worth it in life, it takes time and patience with yourself. However, the quicker you are able to learn things, the faster you can accelerate your self-development and change becomes faster too.