Over the last week, I felt a weight lifted off my shoulders.
I’ve been actively searching for wisdom and fulfillment, both external and internal, for a few years now. Ever since my self-proclaimed “quarter-life crisis,” I’ve started a journey of consciously trying to live out my truth and empower others to do the same. (hence the creation of Quarter for Your Crisis..)
It’s taken me a long time to get here, and I certainly still have a long time to go on this journey, but, over the last week or so, I felt this huge barrier break. Now it’s not to say I won’t have to work each and every day to make sure that pesky little obstacle won’t rebuild itself while I’m not looking, but the destruction of it was something so simple and straight forward that I needed to share with all of you.
First, let’s backtrack for a second.
I believe we are all put here for a purpose. You were created with unique, God-given talents, skills, and passions – and I’m a firm believer that our purpose in life is to live out all of those things for which we were created.
I used to think this sounded fluffy. And I held myself back from voicing my beliefs because I was scared that other people would think this too. Thankfully along the journey I’ve slowly been learning to shed the weight of others’ opinions (huge shout out to Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly for a huge mental shift with this one). If anyone one else struggles with filtering their thoughts or holds themselves back from sharing their truths, I’ll leave you with this quick excerpt:
Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it’s a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands. – Brené Brown
Until people are joining you in the arena and not hiding behind their social media feeds, until they start showing up as their true, authentic, and vulnerable selves, then their opinions are of no concern of mine. Accepting this was a fairly big breakthrough for me on its own, and if it resonates at all with what you’re going through, I cannot recommend reading Daring Greatly enough.
Back to the point: I am finally, fully committing to sharing all aspects of this journey. You have my word that I will no longer hold back in fear of what others may think or say. I will speak my truth, and I hope you will join me on this endeavor. So what’s the big secret discovery to finding your happiness?
Giving yourself permission to be happy.
That’s it.
It sounds so simple, but until someone actually TELLS you to give yourself permission, it can be hard to accept it yourself…
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