"Take it from me it's not easy being green." I love Kermit the frog for these words. Sometimes it's not easy to be ourselves. We wish that we could be all sorts of things. Not like when we were kids and believed that all these things were true, imaginable, and achievable. Below is the article that I want to remember always. It has great insight, at least for me, into what goes wrong in adults. Overcoming mediocrity
My biggest take away from it is this line:
"Remember the possibility of possibility"
To me this means to remember, as the article says, to do what kids do, believe and remember that I can be better, stronger, smarter, faster; I can be everything and anything all at once. My limits are limited only to my imagination and my belief, no matter how old I am.
You may say "but I don't have time, I don't have money, I would have to go back to school, I would have to quit my job, I am too old, too tired," too whatever. These are excuses, mental limitations that are simply self imposed. The problem is when and that we see them as truths (yes, I do this all the time, so don't think I am exempting myself from this. I am the most guilty of this, just ask Igor.) We believe that these "buts" are fact. Something that helps here is thinking of what my Mom always used to say to me "when you say 'but' I know you don't want help, you just want someone to listen." She couldn't be more right.
When we "but," "would have to," "can't," or any thing else like this we haven't gotten to the spot where we are ready to leap, to accept, that these things are possible. We are limited, self limited, and not ready to see that it is just our minds that are holding us back for whatever it is that we really want. And just like in the conversations with my Mom, when I am (we are) ready for help or to take that jump, those words turn into acceptance and then into actions.
So my gratitude today is for this article and the hope that I, and you, remember the wisdom that I have gotten out of it. To look in the face of all my "can'ts," "buts," woulds," and "if onlys," and say "I know what you are" and change them all to "I wills", "I cans," and move forward.
My biggest take away from it is this line:
"Remember the possibility of possibility"
To me this means to remember, as the article says, to do what kids do, believe and remember that I can be better, stronger, smarter, faster; I can be everything and anything all at once. My limits are limited only to my imagination and my belief, no matter how old I am.
You may say "but I don't have time, I don't have money, I would have to go back to school, I would have to quit my job, I am too old, too tired," too whatever. These are excuses, mental limitations that are simply self imposed. The problem is when and that we see them as truths (yes, I do this all the time, so don't think I am exempting myself from this. I am the most guilty of this, just ask Igor.) We believe that these "buts" are fact. Something that helps here is thinking of what my Mom always used to say to me "when you say 'but' I know you don't want help, you just want someone to listen." She couldn't be more right.
When we "but," "would have to," "can't," or any thing else like this we haven't gotten to the spot where we are ready to leap, to accept, that these things are possible. We are limited, self limited, and not ready to see that it is just our minds that are holding us back for whatever it is that we really want. And just like in the conversations with my Mom, when I am (we are) ready for help or to take that jump, those words turn into acceptance and then into actions.
So my gratitude today is for this article and the hope that I, and you, remember the wisdom that I have gotten out of it. To look in the face of all my "can'ts," "buts," woulds," and "if onlys," and say "I know what you are" and change them all to "I wills", "I cans," and move forward.
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