There Is No Reason To Keep Shrinking Yourself
We have all heard the saying {Putting someone’s else’s candle out won’t make yours brighter.}. Here is something I need you to understand as well, and it is the flip side of that saying. Dimming your light will not help others shine brighter. In other words you can not help others by keeping yourself small. In fact the opposite is true, you can inspire and help others more when you allow yourself to be your best, and you are successful.
Now I wish I could tell you that there wouldn’t be people who see you building your success and shining and try to tear you down, but there will be people who are Jealous and intimidated by you. Do not let these people convince you that you are wrong in building your dream. Do not let their negative thinking and limiting beliefs steal your dreams. It will not bring them happiness if you fail, not true happiness, they will still be stuck in their misery and self loathing, the only thing different is that they may have brief satisfaction that you did not succeed. If you press on and keep going and build your dream, It takes away their excuses for not doing more. You light the path and show them the way, and that it’s possible, and that can make them uncomfortable, but it just might make them get up and start working to change. However, it is not your responsibility to make them change. Sometimes you have to release them in love and let them be.
Now the question becomes how do you keep shining and keep going when you have to deal with negative comments from negative people. When it feels like everyone is against you. First you have to pause, and really look at yourself. Why are you doing what you are doing? Is it from a place of true desire, or is it from a place of jealousy? Are you trying to build this dream because it’s truly what you want or to out do someone? Are you simply trying to impress someone? That’s when you will feel the strain of this isn’t right for me. That’s when the success of achieving things doesn’t help energize and motivate you.
When you are truly building from a place of desire, even when things are hard, you feel like you are doing the right thing. You might question yourself a little but there a a pull that tells you to keep going. And each and every small win, gives a burst of motivation and energy that keeps you going. The thought of bringing it all together fills you with pure joy. Focus on that joy, focus on how its going to feel when you make it. That’s how you keep shining even when haters show up.
When you focus on the joy of having or achieving what you want you will attract everything you need to make it happen, and that energy vibration causes a ripple that tells others hey you can do this too, you can do better. And unfortunately not everyone is ready to see that, so they have to make you wrong to quiet the noise of their own inner compass, and magic.
One of the hardest things I have learned, is I am not responsible for other people’s success or their comfort. As long as I am not actively trying to hurt them, it is not my fault they are stuck in a unpleasant state. And if I strive to be successful I am in a better position to help them when its right.