At times, it’s easy to think that everyone else BUT us has their shit together. When you read books, attend seminars, or go to parties, you get bombarded with all the great things people are doing. They present an aura of invincibility that often leaves us thinking that we are the only ones who are a complete mess on the inside.
Of course by mess, I don’t mean in all areas of our life. It might be a relationship, a career choice or some self-defeating thought that creates our own personal messiness, but a mess exists nonetheless.
But you know what? We all have shit we’re dealing with. We all have baggage. We all have a mess that needs cleaning up.
Sure some people do a better job than others at hiding that mess, but trust me, it’s still there.
I am a fan of Anthony Robbins. I love his story and I have read a number of his books and even purchased his Personal Power tapes. (Side-note: Yup that’s right, I said tapes. I am that generation that has experienced the 8-track tape, vinyl records, tape cassettes, CDs and now mp3s.) And for all the great stuff that Tony teaches about personal power and relationships, it couldn’t help him save his first marriage, even though his tapes talked about how great and loving it was.
You see, we all have a mess that we are trying to clean up. And you know what, when we clean that up, there will be another one and another and another one after that.
Our messiness is what makes us human. It’s what makes us unique. It’s what powers us to overcome and succeed.
So the next time you start beating yourself up because it seems everyone else is so much more together than you, QUIT IT. They’re not. They have their mess they are working on cleaning up. You just can’t see it. But it’s there. Trust me.
To an idea worth quitting,
Dean
ps…If you haven’t had a chance, check out my interview about The Power of Quitting on Career Buzz. Click here to listen to the MP3.
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