Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate
Shine
Day 23. How are things coming?
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure
If you’re anything like me, around this time in my first challenge I was starting to get the heebie-jeebies.
It is our light, not are darkness, that most frightens us
I was flailing, convinced that my customers were completely indifferent, that they would never care what I did, and that my product would be a raging failure.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Who was I to try to release a product, I asked myself. Who was I to claim I knew enough to teach a fly about living your passions, let alone my fellow Passioneers?
Actually, who are you not to be?
I’m ashamed to say I ducked. I delayed my product release. I stopped communicating with my audience about it.
You are a child of the world
When I did let it out, a full six weeks later, it didn’t sell a single copy.
Your playing small does not serve the world
Later, I asked someone why, why hadn’t it taken off? Surely this was something my people needed, right?
There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you
“You disappeared,” she said. “And when you did release it, we didn’t remember why we’d wanted it in the first place.”
We were born to make manifest the glory of the world that is within us
I’ve since gone on to other ideas, other products, and other successes.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone
But I always carry that first attempt with me.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same
No matter how scared we are, no matter how convinced we are of our own unworthiness, there are those who think we are all that and a cup of tea.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others
So don’t give in to your fears. You are what your people believe you are. You are what you believe you are. Remember that, and nothing can stop you.
*Text in italics is a poem by Marianne Williamson
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Love the raw vulnerability. Brilliant!
Thank you!
So wonderful to hear that your first product was half-assed (isn’t that what we all fear?) and that it didn’t kill you or your business! You went on to thrive and grow. It gives the rest of us hope and evidence that it can be so for us as well.
And its also ever so nice to know that I’m all that and a cup of tea!
Yep, and not only did it not kill me, I’m the only one who really remembers it! People pay much more attention to our successes. 🙂