The Word from Pete: On deserving
Peter Cook
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Peter Cook
Author. Chair. Mentor. Monk. Helping people get what they want, do the work they're meant to do and live extraordinary lives.
We all have that voice in our head—the one that tells us we don’t deserve it. (There’s also the one that whispers we’re not good enough, but that’s a story for another blog.)
That voice might be louder or softer, and pop up in relation to different things, but we’ve all got it to a greater or lesser extent.
And most of the time that voice isn’t very helpful.
The answer isn’t to argue with it and justify why we do deserve it.
I think it's more useful to think about deserving like we think about sunshine. The sun doesn’t just shine on the people who deserve it. The sun shines on us all.
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5 个月Beautiful analogy. For me I try to balance feeling grateful with deserving. As beforehand you can ask yourself am I grateful for what I have now or does one deserve more, afterwards, I deserved that and I am grateful. Leaving one feeling good. ??