Give yourself permission to make your highest contribution.
“Only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.” Greg McKeown — Essentialism
Have you ever been so busy, that you forget what really matters in your life?
I know you have, and I have to.
I often ask myself, what is the point of life, if we live without purpose. That’s a stupid, meaningless question, haha. There is no point. We NEED purpose to thrive.
How can we possibly live with purpose, when we are taught to “take every opportunity”, because “we never know, maybe sometime in the distant future, this could be a good thing”.
We need to do a little bit of editing in our lives, so that we can live with purpose, on purpose.
We read about it all the time, it’s logical, and it makes great sense. So then why? Why do we often to make ourselves so busy that we forget to live with purpose?
That busyness, is not only a form of procrastination: if we feel we are busy, it means, by definition, that we are doing a lot of things, tricking our brains to think that we are not procrastinating.
But it is actually worst than that.
We say yes to every opportunity, every meeting, every social event, because we are unconsciously trying to numb our minds so that it cannot realise that we are scared to give ourselves permission to make our highest contribution.
We are scared to live with purpose, for a multitude of reasons, mainly false and limiting beliefs, such as:
Being scared to fail when we do what really matters, because it might hurt much more than failing doing what doesn’t matter.
Being scared to succeed (yes this is really a thing) because we don’t want our peers to be jealous or judge us.
Having impostor syndrome, where we have a little voice in our head that tells us: “Who the hell do you think you are to be engaging in this important task?”
There might be many more reasons to why you are not doing your best work, and living on purpose. Living with purpose is a subject that I talk a lot about in my life coaching practice.
Here is something that I have found, that I had not thought about before:
When people come to me asking how they can find their passion, how their can find their purpose, 60% of the time, they have found it, and it is very clear to them what that purpose is.
The challenge, is that they have not yet let go of limiting “inner-myths” which are keeping them from giving themselves the permission to pursue their purpose, their passion, and their highest contribution to the world.
Let go, give yourself permission. You have only one life, and it can end at any time.
