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Unlocking Your Full Potential: The Hidden Consequences of Self-Diminishment
Learn How to Break Free from Self-Sabotage and Unleash Your True Potential
Spirit, show us how to be true to ourselves, always living into our full potential and never hiding that we would become diminished.
No punishment anyone might inflict on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we inflict on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment. And the converse is true as well: no reward anyone might give us could possibly be greater than the reward that comes from living by our own best lights.
— Parker Palmer, Let Your Life Speak
I read the Parker Palmer quote above and thought, “How many times have I done that? How many times have I stepped aside afraid to let my truth stand up?”
The answer: too many times — for many reasons, depending on the situation. I wonder how many times you, my reader, have done that — maybe unknowingly? I wonder if you know how beautiful your voice is in this world and how wonderful it is that you might take up space, right where you are.
Ssshhhh… Don’t be ashamed. Just allow yourself to stand tall, head up. Don’t let anyone tell you that you are any less than God has deemed you.
