Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Your handwriting is not uniform or neat enough. Your cooking is nothing special. Your financial situation could be much better. Well guess what – all of it if has room for improvement. For some, that room for improvement is a space filled with wonder and possibility. Yet for others, it’s a dark, dingy, and self-deprecating space. For the longest time, I didn’t like room for improvement. I closed the door on it. It was a place that I thought made me “less than” I should have been. I had to learn to make the room for improvement a comfy, cozy, and well-liked space that I liked to visit.
What you see wrong with yourself can defeat you, or it can help you get creative. But you have to decide. The flaws in life are not just regrets or reasons to beat yourself up. They are opportunities for growth. But I’ve seen people, especially young adults, savor their flaws and use them as excuses. When you savor what you see as “wrong,” you wallow in it. You stew, fester, and marinate in the flaw itself. The mind loves to detest and propagate the so-called problem. The mind loves to use what it sees as flaws and declare them “limits.” Wallowing in what’s wrong closes the space of what could be. It fills the room for improvement with graffiti, clutter, and darkness. When you close the space for what’s possible, you will never be able to break the limits of your mind. The room for improvement has to create an inner space – even if just a tiny one. That space can welcome possibility. Open the drapes and remove the clutter. Make the space larger. Unfold your arms, and position yourself to embrace better, wiser, and improved choices and opportunities. Welcome improvement like a long-lost friend. Create a hospitable space for it, and watch it transform your life.