Saturday, April 13, 2024
Why is it so hard to believe in yourself? I struggled with that for a long time. I believed I was just “one of those people” who were going to have to be content with being average. I wasn’t at the top, and I certainly wasn’t at the bottom. I was comfortably nestled in the middle. I could never be “one of those” people who achieved greatness and accomplished extraordinary things. My excuse? I didn’t want to work that hard. I didn’t have it in me. I simply couldn’t believe in myself.
Isn’t that something how we justify holding ourselves in a viewpoint called “average.” It’s a perception that fundamentally equates to 50%. Come on, can’t you be 110%? I can hear the response! Do you know how hard that is? I’m not going to put in 80-hour work weeks and bust my butt to be the greatest – forget it! Being on top is not worth it.
The separate self is an illusion, and that illusion floats on this imaginary scale from 0-100. One day, it might be 67%, and then on another, it’s in the bottom 2 percentile. When you begin to realize who you are, and that you might be trapped in the illusion of “I,” “me,” and “mine” you can fall anywhere you want to on this scale of “believing in yourself.” You just as soon believe in the tooth fairy. The same can be true about your belief in God. God is also high and mighty and humble and meek. The sliding scale of belief! How tragic! There is only the undivided truth working out its purpose through you. It’s unscalable, immeasurable, perfect, and Real.
You know why it’s hard to believe in yourself? There is no self in which to believe, and if there were, it’s a moving target.