Learning to love each part of you

I have always been a naturally curious person, who loved learning new things and experiencing different ways of doing things.

I used to get really bored travelling to work the same way every day so I would take a different route just to make me feel better. My first job that I stuck at for any length of time was in a huge insurance company, and I look back then and realise that I always knew this wasn’t for me. At my first yearly review I told the truth – because I wasn’t invested in having to be there and didn’t realise that being truthful might result in being fired ! When I came in really proud that I had told the truth , and told my parents exactly what I had said, they freaked out !

So gradually I realised that in that moment I told the truth I knew that it was a safe job that I could dull myself down for and be safe, it wasn’t for me.

I liked variety and wanted my life to mean something and that meant doing something new that challenged me and allowed me to grow. I wasn’t scared to fail in my 20s so off I went to nursing school and vowed to make a better life for myself and help people in the process. Again as my pattern was I would ruffle feathers and try to challenge the system, and often felt really out of place.

You see I knew that I was making a difference but I was burning myself out and sacrificing my health by doing this. I loved the buzz and the energy of working in a high stress area , which was intensive care , but was always in trouble for laughing.

That was my medicine for the stress but again I knew that I didn’t fit in .

So again I changed to a career in medical sales and wasn’t in the least bit attached to it not working out.

I have finally realised that that is one of my superpowers , but I had forgotten all about that.

Life can be challenging and sometimes we forget the powers we were born with because we chose safe over what if !

It always works out for me and I am reminding myself of that and ask you to remember to do this too.

I had forgotten this as I had been so challenged in the last few years in my business and had got involved in the scarcity mindset . Instead of remembering that first encounter when I told the truth to my boss. I realised that I had become scared the way my parents were for me that time. So now I am reminding myself that sometimes you need to call on that other side of you. The one that’s brave and bold to live the life you want on your terms not anyone else’s .

What would you do, if you remembered your power and always believed that it would always work out of you ?