Does Insecurity Halt Your Personal Growth?

Everyone big or small, old or young would love to feel a

sense of security and well being all of the time in such a

seemingly short life.

However, through life's trials of inevitable ups and downs,

we sometimes believe that our self worth is supposed to be

sub-par, as if the world saw that if we were strong inside, it

wouldn't function properly. The earth's axis would go into

some unhealthy tilt and its rotation would cease.

We wouldn't be serving ourself or anyone else correctly if

this were true, so why are we content to become less than

what we can be and settle with our comfortable insecurities

that we know so well?

Most people, if you were to strip them of everything they

have inside, are merely searching for love and meaning in

their lives; but to some, it is a never-ending, self-fulfilling

prophecy of dead ends and wrong routes taken.

You are always going to be your worst enemy and

suppresser in seeking your personal nirvana!

If you were your biggest fan, you would clone yourself and

when you stepped up to bat, there would be 75,000

screaming you's cheering for your success. Insecure people

take the pleasure in feeding a massive dose of negativity

inwards and therefore would love to stay as a boo bird,

hoping for your own failure.

After all, isn't that what society would love to have happen

to you? Stay down with the masses and wallow in the mire

with them, because misery loves company.

You were probably taught by society or learned this

yourself, but certainly, you were not born with this

affliction.

Have you ever heard that it's all in your head? Ninety nine

percent of your success whether professionally, personally,

or athletically comes from inside you and your physical

attributes are merely that, tangible aspects of you and thats

all.

If you were given ninety health filled days to live, how

would you live them? Would you throw everything at the

wall, put the petal to the metal, dive the deepest blue sea,

scale the highest peak?

Although, you could live truthfully, confident, secure in

yourself, and show all the beautiful colors that you came

into this world with, those colors that have been skewed

and faded for such a long time.

This mindset of not taking today or tomorrow for granted

and knowing that the end could happen at anytime; and

therefore living this gift of life as honest, not only to

yourself, but others, is extremely powerful.

The truth will set you free!

Insecurity cages you in a personal prison when you could

be sailing behind warm winds towards a brighter and more

gratifying future. It rents space in your mind and asks you

to pay its bills. It impedes your personal progression and

tells you that you can't, when you can.

Regretfully, this is an internal force, not something external

that you can run far away from and never see again.

Looking back, do you see your past and at some points

feeling so insecure in some situations that the required task

couldn't be completed because you felt inept?

Were you so insecure within that you had to feel secure by

controlling others? If you were secure, you would know

that your security is about letting go and having faith in

your abilities no matter what situation your in.

Being secure is not "I'm better than you and I'm going to

constantly show you;" to the contrary, it is an inner

confidence that needn't be exuded, but known within,

regardless of a checkered or questionable past.

Remember, you are not on earth a very long time in the

whole scheme of things, so wouldn't it be better to get

the best you can out of yourself instead of locking

everything up in an internal safe of insecurities?

--by Brian Maloney-ValuePrep.com

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