Be Yourself; Everyone Else is Already Taken
The new year is a time for resolutions, an opportunity for new beginnings.
The title of this blog post is a quote from Oscar Wilde. It seem especially appropriate as we begin a new year. This is the time of year when we usually set new targets for ourselves: becoming more healthy or fit, losing weight or going on a diet, finding a new job, getting a promotion or a raise, or finding a mate, or giving up a bad habit – so many choices.
Suppose though, we simply make the commitment to be ourselves in 2014 – not as someone would like us to be, not as society dictates, not some ideal that we feel compelled to live up to, nor something which is a mask that we put on to hide who we really are – but just ourselves.
We all have incredible gifts and natural talents. Perhaps 2014 should be the year in which we let those gifts and talents flourish so that we can live up to our full potential – heart and soul.
After all, everyone else is already taken.
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Exactly my plan. Thank you for the courage all these years and love. Kathy
What a liberating and empowering message for new year resolutions. So many of the other manifestations of who we are would largely take care of themselves if we were able to be our true self.
I “want” to lose weight, I “want” more money, . . .I want I want etc . . .creates a sense of lack, a sense of level of worth.
When we want less of this and more of that, we are an expression of wants and not who we really are. And that is why the wants become insatiable and unending.
But when we become who we really are, we don’t have wants that equate worth. We can then focus on serving and contributing out of which we are rewarded reciprocally.