You’re good enough.
Just as you are right now at this moment.
Here now.
You’re good enough as you are without having to change anything.
You’re good enough for love.
To have an amazing career.
To have happiness and full self-expression.
To experience the most amazing relationship.
You’re good enough in the body that you currently have.
The weight that you are.
The age that you have turned.
To be the lead on your own TV series.
Or to work with Meryl Streep.
Part of being good enough is to simply love and accept yourself for who you are – and where you are – flaws and all. Not because of the things you accomplish or how you look or how successful you are. But just by being alive. It’s extraordinary to simply be alive.
But you don’t wake up saying to yourself, “I’m extraordinary.”
Part of that has to do with our own self-worth. We don’t see ourselves in relation to who we already are. We generally see ourselves in relation to what we haven’t yet accomplished, what we haven’t succeeded at, what we struggle with and where we fail.
So we don’t see our own extraordinariness just by being. By showing up in our own lives and being brave enough to live our dreams and do the best we can is extraordinary.
We are worth so much more than we often give ourselves credit. To that end, find a symbol in your life of something that represents how much you are worth. It might be shocking to discover that you hold onto things because you don’t think you deserve better. You might think that’s all you’ll ever get, so you hold on. Or you wonder, “Why even bother?” Or you control because it’s scary to let go. It could be an old pair of shoes you don’t throw away. It could be an outdated belief. It might be a car you never clean because you already think it’s crappy. It could be your hairstyle or the pair of glasses you wear. It might be the resolution you never keep. It could be a boyfriend or girlfriend.
What if you realized that thing – no matter how small or seemingly insignificant – might represent how you really see yourself? But the truth is you’re bigger than that. You’re worth so much more than that. Let it go and create the space for something that represents your real worth to come into your life.
When you do, you’ll realize “I am good enough.”