My Best is NEVER Good Enough. I'm okay with that.

I never fight with negative thoughts that judge me to be deficient in some way.  Why? Because fighting with negative thoughts only makes me feel lower than a snake's belly and since I don't like feel badly about myself I don't fight with negative thoughts at all. 

I've learned to accept negative thoughts as part of my life and move on.  As an example, all my life I have been told my best wasn't good enough. I was told that my best was not good enough so often that I came to believe it. I not only believed it but I collected years of proof, especially in my chosen field of writing, that my best is not good enough.

I love writing but few people buy my books, I've published six so far. I love posting messages to my blog but people rarely comment. All of this is proof to me that my best isn't good enough. I have no idea why people don't comment on my blog posts or buy my books. Maybe my writings aren't appealing enough, maybe they don't stir people's emotions enough. Maybe I am too arrogant or come across as a know it all or a holier than thou person. I have no idea how I come across to people.

I have tried to change so other people would approve of my writings but the more I changed to please others, the less I was pleased with myself... The worst part of being told that your best is not good enough is using that criticism as an excuse to beat yourself up or criticize yourself for not living up to the standards other people have set for you.

I don't beat myself up any more for my best not being good enough.  Learning to love and accept myself exactly as I am has allowed me to accept that my best isn't good enough. Here is the important thing, my best may not be good enough in the eyes of others but I made up my mind that my best is always good enough in my own eyes. 

As long as I am worried about other people accepting my best as good enough, I am doomed to a lifetime of hurt and disappointment. However once I accepted my best was good enough for me, I have been able to write and enjoy the process of writing regards of whether people leave comments about my writings or buy my books. In the final analysis, experience has taught me that my best for today is always good enough because my best of today will always be better tomorrow.

In other words, practice makes perfect and eventually my writings will become so good that people will buy my books in the millions, that is if I live long enough.  I will admit, if people buy millions of my books after I die, I am going to be royally pissed off on the other side. 😊

Grateful Beyond WORDS...

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I am a big gratitude person and the more that I am grateful for what I have, the more good things that come into my life. It seems expressing sincere gratitude for what you have is like climbing a stairway to your never-ending good. I can't tell you how great my life is... it is beyond words to describe. In the 'popular message' section of this site, you will see a number of articles dealing with gratitude. I write a lot on the subject because being grateful daily works MIRACLES in my life...and it will do the same for you.  By the way, I define a miracle as something happening that I want to happen that happens in such a way that it defies all logical explanation. To me that's a miracle.

Satisfaction

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Satisfaction and contentment wash over me when 
I do the ordinary things in life, extraordinarily well.

Inspiration Point: Savor your MOMENTS.

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Before money comes from your creative or artistic endeavors, you must savor what you created. If what you created is not good enough for you to savor, it won't be good enough for anyone else either. Savor means to give oneself to the enjoyment of. Can you give yourself to the enjoyment of what you created?  If you can't, it will never bring you the financial rewards you seek and want. 



After I post a message that I am excited about, I take the time to savor it.  I read each word over and over again to make sure that I am doing the ordinary (writing) extraordinarily well. If I can savor what I have written, then I know my readers will too. As a result of my audience appreciating what I have written,  the universe will see to it that I receive financial rewards for my work from sources unexpected, unexpectedly.  It's how the law of attraction works

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