What If You’re Already Enough?

Have you ever found yourself believing that who you are right now is not enough?  That your appearance could be better.  Your job could be better.  Your bank balance could be better.  Measuring yourself against others and feeling like you come up short.

Sometimes we come to associate worthiness with having more or becoming more.  Believing that the more we have – more status, more wealth, more success, more admiration – the more worthy we are. 

A ladder whose top cannot be seen

We can spend a lifetime striving to be more - climbing an imaginary ladder of worthiness, believing that one day we’ll finally reach a point where we feel enough.  Yet no matter how high we climb, there always seems to be another rung, another comparison, another standard to meet.

From an early age many of us receive messages that achievement, success and approval are things to strive for.  Perhaps then it’s not surprising that many of us have come to see worthiness as something that must be earned.  Something that arrives when we achieve enough, own enough, earn enough, or become enough.

But what if our worth is not something we achieve, earn, or become, but rather something we already possess? Then no amount of success could make us more worthy.  And no perceived failure could make us less so.

And so perhaps the question isn’t “what do I need to change to be worthy?” but “why do I believe I’m not already worthy as I am?”

And maybe the feeling of worthiness that we’ve been searching for all along doesn’t lie at the top of the ladder but is discovered once we step off it.