Zero In and Keep Your Focus
There are times (sometimes many) when we begin to lose our focus on what it is our heart is telling us to do. We set our goals, we make our plans and we begin to take inspired action. Then life events and other people are allowed to redirect us away from our inspirations of what that small quiet voice is telling us to do.
Why is it that we allow other distractions and people redirect us away from our inspired dreams? It is because we are trying to please others. We allow them to put us in a box because we want to please and seek approval from them. Yet when we do this, we are not allowing ourselves to be happy by trying to make others happy.
So many people want to control others because they are playing small and they don’t understand anything beyond their own way of thinking. They really don’t want you to rise above them and let your light shine because they don’t know how to do it themselves. They want to keep you inside their box to control you and others and the situations around them.
What would happen if you stopped trying to seek their approval? Most likely they may never understand you and would seek to not have you a part of their world. You probably will lose a few friendships along the way.
This is not to say that you should be insubordinate in a job situation. But if you allow others to put you under their control by trying to please them, you are allowing yourself to play small. If you are doing your job and know you are doing it well to your best capacity, just smile and do not allow them to make you feel bad about yourself or feel negative emotions because they want to put you in their box under their control. Always keep a good attitude because the smallness of others should not matter to you.
Yes, people will try to convince you to stay where you are and may even try to belittle you. Some will ignore you and withhold their approval. It may not be easy to stop playing it safe. What is the worst thing that could happen to you if you followed your heart? Honestly answer this question. My guess is that the very worst thing that could happen is that you would step out of favor of those controlling type of people that you were trying to please.
But don’t you think you would be happier yourself? When all is said and done and your life is ending, do you really want to feel any regrets or “what if’s” if all you did your entire life was please others and play small?
Follow the path of your heart with a spirit of love. Stop playing small to please others. Be secure in who you are and trust that small quiet voice within. Be honest and speak with truth. Stop wasting your time to win the approval of others that will never understand you. Zero in and keep your focus on what your true destiny is.
Once you follow your heart and know that you are walking in life with the spirit of love, new people and opportunities will enter your life. These new people that will come into your life will understand your soulful journey and support you and love you. You will not have to jump through hoops to try to please them. They will celebrate you and be your biggest cheerleader. Your life and true destiny is too great to play small by allowing others to control you. Go for it, zero in and keep YOUR focus!!