How’s life ‘treating’ you? Is it rolling out as you had it planned? When you were younger did you know what you were going to be when you grew up? Who you were going to marry? How many kids you were going to have? What the house looked like…. To be honest, I don’t remember planning my future particularly like that, however one thing I do know is that I never said “Hmmm, I just think I will be average, I’m ok with mediocre….”
It can be so easy to get in a rut, to get on the gerbil wheel of life, a day rolls in to the next, in to a week, and in to a month…. We are in August?! Like seriously? How did that happen?
Whatever you believe, whoever you believe in (if you do), I can tell you one thing for sure, when you were born, no one slapped a label on you that said ‘Mediocre’. When you were in that hospital, and the nurse put a little name band on you, they didn’t write Baby Average, Little Miss One of the Crowd….
You were given a name. You were born to be you…. You were born to be the best version of you…. Are you stepping up to the mark?
Some of you may know that I mentor a fifteen year old girl who is just struggling with life a bit, and the charity that I do this through rang up my references to check me out, and my lovely referee said to this lady “Liz was born to do this….” I’m 36, nearly 37, it has taken me that long to work out what I was born to do, and I am one of the lucky ones!
What were you born to do, what is in your heart that you visit when you are feeling slightly brave? What is that longing? Where has that dream gone, that thing that you can’t do now because (fill in the blank)? What gets you fired up, what lights up that fire in your belly? What puts a skip and jump in your step?
Another thing when we were born is that we were not expected to live in confinement, we were born in to a family, (whatever that means to you), we were born in to a community, we were not expected to survive and achieve on our own… Who can help you achieve your greatness, who do you need to help give you that leg up? Who do you need to be supporting you, helping you be the best version of you?
This can be in any area of our life. How’s your health on a scale of mediocre to excellent? What about your finances? Your social life? Are you out and about enough? On the other side of the coin, do you have enough me-time to fill the tanks? Your business? Your job? Your relationships? Where are they on the scale?
Today I attended a Baggy T-shirt exercise class, why? Because my exercise levels were mediocre, actually if mediocre was zero on the scale, then my exercise level has probably been about -10. My thing about exercise is that I do not like to have to think, I just want to do…. Today I was able to do that, told how many to do, what to do, stop when I had to stop, go when I had to go…. It was awesome! I really felt that I was making a start on those small steps on the scale of minus mediocrity through to peak! Would I have done it if it wasn’t for Nikki running it? Maybe – but it was a darn sight easier and fun doing it with her and the lovely Emma. Have I got more chances of succeeding, working alongside these two ladies? Yes I do!
What’s stopping you from pursuing that dream now? What is stopping you from being that person you were born to be? Which area of your life needs an overhaul? Who do you need to help you be that person, achieve that goal, make that dream a reality?
Best version of you…. Let’s do this together! One shot! Let’s go!
