So Much More
In a previous posting, https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/i-am-enough-eden-hare?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via I talked about how we define who we are and how each of us is enough. ? I want to come back to that and talk about how "enough" is really so much more.
I am enough.
Thinking about the requirements, constraints, conditions others put on us.? Or we put on ourselves.? "I am enough if I love 20 pounds."? "I am enough if I do this thing for my partner."? "I am enough if I get that promotion."
"I am enough" helps us start to define who we are in a positive lens.? It places us in control of that definition and helps us see that regardless of what others think, "I am enough".? This statement can also place possibly an unreasonable condition on ourselves.
But what if we can be more than enough?
In a church service celebrating my legal name change, I talked about how being transgender is the least interesting thing about me.? When I came out in August 2022, it was important to be visible with that adjective.? Now it isn't. ? Because I am so much more.? ?
Making that discovery so to speak was wonderful.? In that service I used the words.? It was in the recent days where I started to understand what I meant.? Interactions with a new friend and comments made challenged me to see myself differently.? I have thanked her for getting me to that point.
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I am enough.? But I am So.Much.More.? I am capable of being anything I set my mind to.? Some of those things are going to be ridiculously scary.? Uncomfortable. Exciting.
For each of us; our potential is limitless.? We are hindered by what others say to us, how we feed our inner self, and how much faith we have in us.? Yes, you read that right.? Sometimes it is our own fear, our lack of faith or trust in our ability to do whatever it is which is limiting our potential.
The possibly scary part is how this idea applies to everything in our life.? Because it isn't about being enough for someone else.? It is about us realizing we can be so much more for ourselves.
How are you limiting your potential?
How can you be so much more?