Here’s a thought: What if you just pretended, for a moment, that you were exactly the person you wanted to be, right now?
I got this idea from a friend of mine who was a guidance counselor at my school, until she was so rudely laid off due to budget cuts (and an unsupportive principal). She ended up finding a position teaching educational psych classes at a local university, and posted this radical notion on Facebook last night.
So, what if you just decided, okay, I’m exactly who I want to be, just the way I am? What would you do differently? How would you approach the world, knowing that you had already achieved your maximum, found your bliss, etc.? How would you face your loved ones, friends, colleagues?
Do you ever feel like you don’t live up to your own expectations? If so, why not change your expectations so that they live up to you?
There is no sense in beating ourselves up over the fact that we are not the person we think we could/should/would be if that or the other thing was/was not/will be. At the same time, there is no sense in following down destructive paths that we’ve worn so well under our feet.
So if we pretend that we are exactly who we want to be, then maybe we won’t see a need to follow those destructive paths. Why destroy something that is perfect?
