Yes, You Deserve Good Things
Why is our culture so obsessed with the concept of “deserving”?
“You deserve a break.”
“I feel I deserve this workshop.”
“I don’t deserve that yet…”
“I deserve this upgrade."
“I don’t deserve that…”
At a recent conference, I heard that word, that notion of “deserving,” so many times. If you’re like me, the word “deserve” doesn’t sit well. Doesn’t the very word imply that there are conditions on deserving? There’s “deserving” and then there’s “not deserving.” At what point do you reach the coveted “deserving” status? What do you have to do? How much do you have to do? How long does it last?
One of my breakthrough clients had cleared the obvious negative emotions and was doing great. She was more in control of her life and was taking happiness for her own happiness. In getting ready to take a vacation with her family it crept up -- a deep limiting belief that was ready to be addressed: “I don’t deserve to feel good.”
Watching her address and work through that limiting belief was a powerful, emotional experience -- one that I will not soon forget. It was so powerful, I had to record a podcast episode about it!
What she learned -- the powerful truth she discovered -- is that it doesn’t matter whether you feel deserving or not. You just are.
Deserving presupposes that there are things that we can do to make us undeserving. And I tell you that there is no such thing.
You’re alive. You’re conscious. You are. Period.
Stop focusing on whether or not you “deserve” or whether or not you feel “deserving.” Use the resources at your disposal to get to cause, to be the primary mover and shaker in your own life, and to feel better and more in control than you’ve ever felt in your life.
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- Episode 2 -- We learned about internal representations
- Episode 3 -- We learned about perception is projection
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