You Are Needed & You Are Enough

[Music] welcome to impact the world the show for and about creatives changemakers and entrepreneurs this is an insight episode where I share a few quick tips to help you take your work and mission to the next level [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey so in this episode we are going to look at why you are needed and why you are enough so 15 years ago when I began this work it was very easy for me to think of people who were already doing the kind of thing I was doing in my field and see that they were more progress they'd been doing it longer they were really good at it so I could often think to myself well why am I needed and what I've learned and come to understand over the years is all of us are needed because we are all completely unique we all have a very unique way of seeing things delivering things and being an emblem for somebody who is going to need you so one trap that I see people fall into a lot when they forget that they are enough and that they are needed exactly as they are is they try and emulate or become someone else that they admire so the world doesn't need another Oprah Winfrey or another Brendon Burchard or another Elvis Presley because those guys are either already out there doing their thing or they have been out there doing their thing and their imprint is now left on our collective what the world needs is how you are going to imprint our collective because you are a composite of all of the experiences that you have had so far and so that's what you need to share with the world and also we tend to have a human disease of not being enough so you being willing to work with that inside your own mind and still step out there and recognize actually I may not be quite as good as I want to be in this area or this area but I'm just gonna offer this that I can because you never know what it's gonna do for somebody else how it's going to empower them or just the act of you showing up in the world give someone else permission to be brave enough to show up themselves so when you're comparing yourselves to others stop it because we don't need you to be the person that you already admire we need you to take the energy that you got from that person that you admire let it run through your system and let the world see who you are birthing yourself to be because these are really important transform all times and more voices than ever more teachers than ever more different ways of doing things than ever are needed number two is who are you to judge if you're somebody who doesn't really judge yourself and you can say that you look in the mirror and you love what you see every time and that you're pretty you're pretty open about yourself and you're pretty like easygoing then great maybe it's important to think about this idea that you've got in your head that you're not enough because this is new for you but if you like so many of us are the kind of person who can recount countless times of looking in the mirror and not liking what you see you're focusing on that part of your body or your face that you don't really like that no one else ever cares about or sees because they just experience your personality or they think you're really beautiful and you're the kind of person who won't hear that because you've decided you're not you are not the best judge of whether you are enough or whether you are needed so it's good to know that and go ah I have a part of my mind that is not helpful to me and is not very accurate because the way I see myself is still way harder on myself than all my friends and family and loved ones see me so as I move into doing this work a little bit more this is gonna be a great opportunity for me to start to recognize that what my mind wants to tell me about why I shouldn't do something or why I'm not good enough is actually a lie and is stopping me from experiencing the fullness of myself in the world is stopping others from experiencing the fullness of myself in the world and really it's all about experience the reason to really do something in the world put your work into the world is to connect with people and to go on to have greater experiences so if that little judge is just insidiously wanting to keep beating you up catch it recognize it know are this this this book might be tough because I really want to take myself down so this is gonna be a great opportunity for me to work with that part of my mind keep pushing forward anyway get feedback and support and maybe some therapy or some help with it if I feel the need for that but to keep going because this is a pattern I can break if I keep going number three is do what you can as well as you can and don't worry about what you didn't do or can't do this is common any of us who create things you know you can create something and you walk away from it and you're like ah god I wish I'd said that differently or I wish I'd painted that part differently this is just the nature of being a creator you don't know what the perfection of what you have created is in the world so in order to actually be doing things in the world you have to let go of perfection because perfection is an idea and perfection is in the eye of the beholder one person's idea of perfection is very different to someone else's so in order to show up be enough give to the world you have to hold what you create lightly keep going put it out recognize that as you do this more and more you will start to be a little less critical of your own creations and you will start to lean more into the experience of being a creator in the world and that what I call the wheel which is we put things into the wheel of life I'm super grateful to all the authors singers musicians artists who put their work out into the wheel that I get to receive and what you're doing when you put your work into the wheel is you're making an offering for other people to have an experience with that you may never fully understand so you aren't the best judge of your own creations so if you're being too judgmental about the things that you're doing try and hold that a little more lightly and try it out in some people and see what the feedback is because you'll often be surprised what others will be seeing that you aren't number four you aren't doing this alone often when we're having those thoughts of are not good enough or I'm not this enough or I'm not as good as that person it can be really important to remember that this isn't just about you none of us are unique because we as human beings are these singular people we're all a composite of every single teacher every single lesson every single person in our life that we have experienced that we have been influenced by so sure I have a name and I have a certain vibration in a certain way of working but I'm a composite of everyone who has come before me I'm a composite of everybody that has affected me taught me so I'm enough because I'm not just me I am Who I have arrived at today and who's before you today in this forum because of every other human being nature other things that have influenced me so you're never doing it alone and whoever you think you are there's a lot more to it than just you as a creator your remix in everything that has come before you and you're putting it out with a new vibration a new way of communicating it and that's what the world needs number five a good thing to do when you are questioning am i enough am i needed is think of three people in your life who have created things in the world or done things in the world that you are really grateful for so for example this could be your favorite singer this could be your grandmother because of the way that she raised you in the way that she showed up this could be your favorite author I assure you that none of those people when they were doing what they were doing or creating what they created didn't have some kind of self-doubt along the way or challenging days so think of how grateful you are for what they created and put into the world and choose to be one of those people for someone else because if these people that you are so grateful to hadn't existed hadn't pushed through their own resistance hadn't figured out how to put themselves into the world for you and for other people you wouldn't be who you are today because you are directly influenced by their love their creativity their work so if ever you're having a rough day or questioning whether you should put yourself out there think of all the people who put themselves out there that you are so grateful that they did and then make a choice to be someone who's going to possibly be that person for others and finally number six which is you will grow learn and change through the doing of what you want to do so often we think that we should be prepared and rehearsed and have it all together and it just doesn't work like that we're all apprentices every single day in our life we're all growing we're all changing and you will grow and learn through the doing but if you never start if you hesitate for too many years to start moving into this thing that you want to do or create you'll never actually get to grow and evolve and again you don't know how what you do may affect someone else's life and in many cases it may save someone else's life the song you write the article that you write it might be a really key piece in someone else's healing or transformation so if you're finding you can't get out of your own way on a certain day try and recall some of the feedback that you've had for what you've done so far whether it's for work that you've put into the world whether it's just a friend who says that day that you chatted to me about my divorce I was in the hole and you just lifted me out don't forget that who you are is already perfect and what you can offer today is already enough so try and practice that with your mindset whenever you're in that fear place that doubt place that comparison place you are needed you are enough and now is your time you have been listening to impact the world for more of my work please visit Lee Harris energy calm and to attend my five-day impact the world in person training event held in Scottsdale Arizona in April 20/20 vision me Harris energy.com forward slash impact [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 11min 12sec (672 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 10 2020