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Raising The Bar On Your Self-Worth
In some high-jump sports, the bar is
raised to a new level each time the competing athlete successfully makes it over
the previous bar height. In the Game Of Life, our self-worth, a major part of
our self-image, sets the level for the quality of our lives.
Our self-image
is the concept we have of ourselves, an assessment of our qualities and
abilities. Our self-worth
is the value we place on that assessment.
Raising the bar on our self-worth a
notch or two, allows us to play the game at the next level and have the life
that JUST NATURALLY goes with playing the game at that level.
So, what is it that you want
from life that you don't have? Think about that want for a moment, and
then ask yourself, "Why don't I already have it?" "What's keeping me from
just choosing to live my life more abundantly in that way, right now?"
If you don't know, I have an answer for
you. The reason you can't choose the good life
right now is because you live in a box. We all
do. That box is your concept of reality. What you want from life that you don't
have is outside that box.
What's keeping you in that box?
Your concept of reality sets the limit on what you may have in your
life. And your reality concept also sets that pattern for your thinking.
But here's the paradox: your way
out of that box will require some thinking out of the box; but a powerful part
of you doesn't want you going there. Now you know why you're stuck in that box.
You see, God gave you and I the power
to choose who we would be, but He also gave us our egos as the means by which we
would experience the reality of our BEING choice.
The paradox of our lives
is that once ego takes on the job of maintaining the current reality, a part of
it's job is to prevent our choosing out of that box and into a new reality.