Be Yourself instead of trying to be someone else
I spent this week working on a project. Hours of tedious effort. I put it out with anxious hope on Facebook to get feedback, seeing if I could create an artistic business on the side.
Well, I think it flopped.
Sort of crushed, I kept checking to see if anyone understood my vision.
Perhaps I am not meant to be a fine artist. I just might suck at this. Have you ever wished for a talent you didn’t possess?
You, being yourself, unknowingly inspire others to be themselves-Mooji
No room for comparison
There are plenty of skills we can teach ourselves. Things we can become better at with training. I contend there are also things that no matter how we try, it just isn’t going to improve much. Bear with me here…
You know how when kids are little sometimes we hear “You can do anything you set your mind to?” Is that true? I am thinking of American Idol.
A ridiculous number of people try out each year that are flat-out horrible. They were told they had talent, when judges pronounce their singing was horrendous. They were duped.
How much better to tell kids “You are going to rock at whatever God created you to be!” Because the fact is, all the training in the world can’t make us awesome at something we aren’t meant to do.
No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else- Buckminster Fuller
Why is it important to be yourself?
I can’t sing. It doesn’t matter how much I sound like Snow White in my own ears. A good friend finally broke it to me that frankly, I am not a very good rapper. My backup plan.
I’m not a natural at many things. Some things I have learned to do that surprised me.
I want to be the best ME. I have mad skills in some areas. You knock things out of the park that others can’t.
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not saying we can’t try new things, seek to improve in areas. Heck yeah!
Try…but try for the sake of having fun. Try…to see what your hidden talents are you never have uncovered. Try it, but if it doesn’t work out? Don’t stay stuck.
Let’s don’t want to waste time- precious unstoppable time, trying to become something we are not.
We can focus on what we are called to be, and do it well.
Find out who you are and do it on purpose- Dolly Parton
Stop trying to be someone else and embrace the current you
What now? I’ll enjoy experimenting, it’s fun. This piece probably has potential, and maybe I will still work on it.
Maybe I will move on to what I know I am good at. Either way is fine!
Here is where I went wrong today…I put stock in hoping people liked it. My attempts, my journey of discovery. I sought out the approval of people.
Do you want to know how you can tell you are on the right path? Just pleasing God will be enough.
That is the who and the what we are created for. And it is enough.
So be yourself, not someone else.
Galatians 1:10a Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people?
Let’s talk about it-Who do you want to be? Were you told you were good at something you aren’t? Or, were you told you were not good at something you are?
Resources to fight comparison:
Without Rival: Embrace Your Identity and Purpose in an Age of Confusion and Comparison
Authentically, Uniquely You Study Guide: Living Free from Comparison and the Need to Please
You Are Enough: What Women of the Bible Teach You About Your Mission and Worth
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