I realized a pattern. Two awesome contests appeared encouraging particpants to create content and enter to win the prize. My immediate reaction was… ‘yeah that is cool – but I’ll never win so I’m not even going to bother’. Really? Well at first it made perfectly good sense until I started hearing that line twice. I was giving myself this underlying message, you don’t really matter, so just take a seat and stay quiet. Ha! Well I decided to show myself and start acting like I mattered – because I certainly do. So I got to work – I made a video for a contest hosted by my school – Institute of Integrative Nutrition that shared my process of getting to where I am now. The quality isn’t great – but I am proud of the content that flowed out of my mouth. You can take a blurry look here. Then I entered a contest hosted by Kathryn Budig – challenging participants to replicate this picture and share what yoga means to them. 
Again first thought – cool – but I’m not that creative and I will just be wasting my time. But then I acted like I was worth it.
And there you go. Am I attached to win? No. But I am thrilled I took a few minutes from my day to show myself that I rock – even though some of the first thoughts that come into my brain might tell me otherwise. The beauty is I get to choose.
Do these same limiting beliefs keep you safe & quiet? I’d love to hear.
