Legacy Confidence Ebook took out parts

 


Does it feel like life is a series of mistakes piled up creating a mountain that you are constantly climbing, never getting it right? Do you have this looming feeling that no matter how hard you try, you will always be lacking in some way, that you will never be okay? Hey, maybe you haven't figured out how to have glowing, clear skin or shiny hair or how to walk without stumbling. Maybe you daydream about  looking and feeling like somebody else.... OR you constantly beat yourself up for not being like other people, people who are way better than you (in your mind) and have life figured out a little bit more (based on their social media pictures). Do you relate to any of these?



(took it off)


What this means is that it's impossible to be happy for yourself if all your attention is on somebody else. Sometimes you have to just turn the phone off (or lock it) and see your reflection staring right back at you. Focus on that person instead (it’s you, in case you missed it!).



Speak this truth over yourself, over and over again: 

I can become and be whoever I desire to be.



If it’s happening for them now (the person you are comparing yourself to), in time it will happen for you. You are not in anyone else’s timeline. You are only in competition with yourself. So you only have to be better today than who you were yesterday.


If it’s happening for them now (the person you are comparing yourself to), in time it will happen for you. You are not in anyone else’s timeline. You are only in competition with yourself. So you only have to be better today than who you were yesterday.



Maybe everyone you know likes to watch TV, but you rather sit in a corner and read a book. Maybe everyone in your family likes Salsa,  but you secretly like Rock bands. Maybe you don’t like math, but you find art interesting. Whatever the disconnect is, in this stage of your life right now you are looking for approval. You are not sure of who you are, so you are constantly looking outwardly for an answer that already exists within.

I want to tell you, YOU ARE ENOUGH.

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