Labels

How many time did you judge yourself today? How many times did you say: "How stupid! I did it again! What's wrong with me?" or "I always do that. That's me! This is not my forte." Or how many times have you felt that something would be great but it is not for you?

For many years I judged myself, and one judgment I had about myself was that I was NOT A MORNING PERSON. And facts would often prove me right. I would sleep right through my earth-shaking alarm clock, ringing phone and hungry-scratching-jumping cat! And then, of course, I would have to run out the door in a hurry, all stressed and disheveled. I believe I tried about every trick in the book... and then some!

Until one day I realized I had been looking in the wrong direction all along. If I had been a tennis player I would have been looking at the racket instead of the ball. There was nothing wrong with me, there was something wrong with the way I was thinking.

So I stopped judging myself, comparing myself to others, labeling myself as a "non-morning-person" or anything else for that matter. I stopped diminishing my potential by closing myself into a box and chose the BYOP way, I slowed down, trusted and opened to possibilities:

"I am a human being and as such I have the ability to be whatever I need to be, I can be a morning person on Monday and an evening one on Tuesday, and anything in between on any other day if need be."

Then I asked myself the questions:
"What do you want for your life? How do you need to be to get there?" ...and move on with my life.

Your Assignment:

Listen to yourself for a week, without judgment! And take note of your label or labels. What are those and why do you have them? Are they actually yours or did somebody else put them on you and you took them on board?

Then take the BYOP way: slow down, trust and open to possibilities:

"I am a human being and as such I have the ability to be whatever I need to be, I can be ______________ one day and ______________ on another day, and anything in between on any other day if need be."

Then think about the questions:
"What do I want for my life? How do I need to be to get there?"

Remember: labels are for pants and cars, not for YOU.

Be your own person and live the life you really want.