Beyond "not enough"

"Not enough" is a story. Even though we may not see it that way.

The story plays like this: if this happens, I will be enough. If I earn this much, if I weigh this much, if I start dating this person, if I get this job, and so on.

The fact is, none of these will change the story of being not enough. We will find something else that will help us continue the story.

The only way to change the story is to change the story. With intent.

We can choose to be enough and still work on ourselves.

I am enough. I would love to earn more money. But I am enough. I would love to weigh this much. But I am enough.

We keep growing, we keep moving forward, we keep making things better.

We grow from enough to enough, from whole to whole.

It takes courage to leave the "not enough" story behind.

An excerpt from The Art of Possibility:

Often, the person in the group who articulates the possible is dismissed as a dreamer or as a Pollyanna persisting in a simplistic “glass half-full” kind of optimism. The naysayers pride themselves on their supposed realism.

However, it is actually the people who see the glass as “half-empty” who are the ones wedded to a fiction, for “emptiness” and “lack,” like the “wall,” are abstractions of the mind, whereas “half-full” is a measure of the physical reality under discussion.

The so-called optimist, then, is the only one attending to real things, the only one describing a substance that is actually in the glass.