Be all you want to be.....

Be all you can be.... is a motto of the recruiters of the US army.  But I want to talk about how we can be all we want to be in our own lives...  I think growing up one of the things I learned how to do very well was to fail.   And possibly part of that was learning the wrong definition of failure.   Anyway when I did not accomplish something that to me measured up to a success or I did not think it would be a success by those I cared about I considered what ever I had done as a failure.   One thing I did NOT learn was failure, so what, pick yourself up and start all over again.   I didn't have the self assurance to pick myself up and start all over again.   In fact I considered that if I did not accomplish something the first time how could I possibly accomplish it the second time.   If you find that you are having trouble picking yourself up or even getting started on something you really want to do look inside.  What are you good at?  painting?  Love? teaching? cooking?  cleaning?  poetry?  Inside you is an inner expert.  Everyone has them.  Jean Houston, one of the pioneers of "the human potential movement" tells the story that she does not like writing... has a phobia about it in fact, and yet has twenty some books out and countless unpublished manuscripts.  So how does she get past her phobia and write... she said she is a great cook and loves to cook and she learned that if she treats her writing like cooking.  start with a recipe, throw in a little of this, taste this.... and her books are written.   Cool idea... her inner cooking expert helps her write.     You can do it too.... find your inner expert and Be all you want to be.......