Awareness starts with looking within…

I ran across this as I was reading from a daily inspiration book. Reading this book is usually part of my morning routine. Meditation, read daily inspirations/devotionals and journaling. I started with the devotionals. The book Daily Inspiration by Robin Sharma is on the reading list. Here’s the entire inspiration for today:

As your awareness expands, you will become aware of things you previously could neither see nor understand. We don’t know what we don’t know – until we start looking within. All is good here. All that has unfolded for you is leading you to a fantastic place.

I got here today due to several reasons. Upon waking, I realized that my mind was all over the place. I couldn’t land on what to do first (other than drink my coffee!) I could not decide what needed to be done today, and began to spiral into self-doubt and procrastination. All by 7AM! Now, it is the weekend, and it has been a very long week. But I feel as if I say that EVERY weekend… Anyway, I got my coffee, thought a little bit more about my indecision and uneasy feelings, and decided that maybe I should get some things out of my head. Well, my journal was located under my inspiration/devotional books.

I took a sip of coffee as I grabbed my journal and looked at the books. I usually don’t read them on the weekends. I “give myself a break.” And I thought to myself, “what if I read them”? It couldn’t hurt. So I did.

I talk alot about how awareness is the first step to aligning your mindset with your greatness. Awareness requires that you look at yourself. All of yourself. We are often afraid to do this, as there are inevitably parts of us that we are not happy with, not proud of, downright don’t like.

But that’s okay. How are you supposed to change your life if you aren’t clear on what needs to change? Change always starts with you. Change always starts within you. Your story is yours. The good, the bad, the ugly. In order to change you and your story, you have to acknowledge it. In order to change it, you have to own it.

So start with awareness. Just be aware of who you are. It’s okay. If there is something that you don’t like about you, guess what??? You can change it. But you have to know what that thing is. You have to be aware of you.

And remember what Robin Sharma said: “All is good here.” Learn to separate the problem from the person. You aren’t bad. What you don’t like about yourself isn’t all of you. It’s one characteristic that you can change. If you are willing to acknowledge it. You are great. You are amazing. Working on you will only elevate your greatness.

All is good here.