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Today's
Meditation:
Confidence
in ourselves is not, for the most part, one of the easiest
things for us to muster in our lives. But do we
deserve to have confidence in ourselves?
Absolutely. We all have been created as marvelous
human beings sharing this great planet together, and if we
somehow "play small" and let life's hard times
keep us from reaching our full potential, then we're robbing
the world of our unique, beautiful contribution--the
contributions that only we can make. Perseverance
is one of the great keys to confidence. In my
experience with college and high school students, I often
see that those who don't make it through what they're doing
have given up, have refused to stick it out until the
end. In their minds they can think of many things that
are much easier or much less threatening, and they decide to
give up the effort and move on to something that won't be as
difficult for them. Many
of these students have a great deal of potential, yet most
of them will not reach that potential because they haven't
believed in themselves and their ability to accomplish what
they've set out to do. Because of this, they'll
possibly never know what they could have done because they
simply chose the easier way out. Of
course, many people aren't ready for college when they go,
and giving up is almost inevitable. And perhaps these
people simply aren't gifted academically, and they're better
off searching elsewhere to find their true gifts. But
when we're caught up in trying to accomplish something that
we truly want to accomplish, we'll do well to remember that
our perseverance today may be difficult, but it's exactly
what will help us to make our tomorrows more rewarding, and
it will help us to reach the potential that's waiting inside
of us, waiting to be reached. |
