Silencing the Spirit of the Not Good Enough
I don’t know about you, but I’m done with not feeling good enough or what I do isn’t good enough.
We live in a world that is inundated with messages that we need to do that next ONE thing in order to achieve our goals and to make something of ourselves. Whether it’s in the school system, on the soccer field, in the workplace, or even in the church, we are told we must be more and we must do more.
The Struggle Is Real For Us All
So how do most of us respond? We do more, more and more. We do more at the expense of our sanity, of our relationships, and of our joy.
We work endlessly to meet a goal, satisfy people’s expectations, and finally attain that status or promotion we have always wanted.
We try to make our businesses profitable and successful, see more students involved in our ministries, and give ourselves completely to every relationship so they are happy and feel loved.
But can I just say this? It’s time that you and I stop that madness. We need to recongize that 1) we can’t possibly do everything and 2) that we are good enough and what we do is good enough. We must start to see that we are imperfect humans in need of a perfect God.
I Struggle Too
I will be the first to tell you that I struggle with the spirit of not being and doing “good enough”. A few weeks ago I did an exercise where I had to identify my limiting beliefs and what I realized is that my real struggle is not necessarily feeling like I myself am not good enough, but what I DO isn’t good enough.
I realized that I’ve been operating out of a scarcity model for way too many years and feel like what I do is always lacking and never enough to satisfy my or other’s expectations.
Whether it was in school and feeling like I would have done better if I studied harder or telling myself if I was stricter with eating earlier on in my life I would be a certain size and never struggle with eating/body issues, I always tried to meet that one next goal and satisfy that one next expectation. And even now, with my business it often feels like if I did that one extra thing or met that one extra goal, I would finally get my business where I want it to be.
I Am Done
But I am done. I am done with those thoughts, that mindset and those lies. I am done beating myself up if I don’t reach a goal, and even more done with having pity parties over something that actually isn’t a big issue.
Instead, I am going to welcome a gratitude mindset and one of celebration over myself and my life. I will celebrate each step I make in every area of my life because each step is one closer to being who God has made me to be and doing what He’s called me to do.
I will stop each day and smell the roses because they are sweet and they represent fruit from my labor.
I will celebrate myself for being a strong-willed, determined, ambitious, courageous and beautiful woman because that is who God created me to be, and I am finally living it out.
I will silence the spirit of the not good enough with these truths and shut it down before it takes over and put it in it’s place.
Will You Join Me?
Do you struggle with the spirit of the not good enough?
If so, then do me a favor and join me in this challenge. Let’s together silence that spirit day after day and situation after situation. Let’s show to ourselves and the world that WHO WE ARE and WHAT WE DO is plenty good enough.
It’s time we rise up and silence the lies and welcome the truth, no matter how hard it is.
Why? Because it is only in the truth that we will be set free and the spirit of the not good enough MUST be silenced and flee.
