I too, denied my potential for a long time, due to a “good” job and great benefits. But now, everyday is a source of excitement and and anticipation. I can really relate to your “wonder what’s going to happen next” emotions.

Thanks for stopping by, I’ll be checking out your blog for more great insights.

I’ve been thinking about the fact that for a while now, I’ve denied my potential. Not in as obvious ways as you write about, which is why I’ve been in denial that I was denying my potential.

But once I started to see that I was viewing myself as “less than,” I also started to see that the view was rooted in fear (#3).

In other words, I saw that the reason I denied my potential was because I had fears of what fulfilling my potential would mean – things like quitting my comfortable high paying job to actually follow my deeper desires, or having to embrace subtler parts of my personality and experience that I haven’t expressed much due to lack of comfort (the less we express something, the more foreign it feels).

I could go on about some of those subtler fears that arose through my understanding of denying my potential.

On the bright side, since awareness is the first step towards real and meaningful change, I have been moving more and more away from fear and embracing my greatest potential.

Now that fear has transformed into excitement Though for the most part it’s not in that “I can’t wait for…” kind of excitement, but in a more literal and in-the-moment context. My energy is more excited, more alive… sort of like the protons and electrons in my body are bouncing faster and more vibrantly than they were before.

And of course a little bit of that “I wonder what’s going to happen next?” kind of excitement is there sometimes…

You have stated very eloquently the thoughts that I was trying to convey. Fear makes us prisoners of our lives rather than the rulers we could be.

Your insight is fantastic, I will be stopping by for more soon.

In my opinion FEAR is the single biggest obstacle in people creating their best lives.

Far too many of our significant ‘life decisions’ come out of our fearful mindset, and as a consequence, many of us live a life of compromise, under-achievement and imprisonment. And repetition. And repetition.

It’s like some of us are Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. And repetition. All of our days are just like the ones before. And sadly for some, tomorrow will be the same too. Because that’s what we do; the same – even though we desperately want different.

The journey between where we are and where we want to be scares the crap out of us so we stay put. In Samesville. A.K.A. ‘prison of the mind’.

Great blog Chris!

Craig

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