Does Insecurity Halt Your Personal Growth?

However, through life’s trials of inevitable ups and downs,we sometimes believe that our self worth is supposed to besub-par, as if the world saw that if we were strong inside, itwouldn’t function properly. Earth’s axis would go intosome unhealthy tilt and its rotation would cease.

We wouldn’t be serving ourself or anyone else correctly ifthis were true, so why are we content to become less thanwhat we can be and settle with our comfortable insecuritiesthat we know so well?

Most people, if you were to strip them of everything theyhave inside, are merely searching for love and meaning intheir lives; but to some, it is a never-ending, self-fulfillingprophecy of dead ends and wrong routes taken.

You are always going to be your worst enemy andsuppresser in seeking your personal nirvana!

If you were your biggest fan, you would clone yourself andwhen you stepped up to bat, there would be 75,000screaming you’s cheering for your success. Insecure peopletake the pleasure in feeding a massive dose of negativityinwards and therefore would love to stay as a boo birdhoping for your own failure.

After all, isn’t that what society would love to have happento you? Stay down with the masses and wallow in the mirewith them, because misery loves company.

You were probably taught by society or learned thisyourself, but certainly, you were not born with thisaffliction.

Have you ever heard that it’s all in your head? Ninety ninepercent of your success whether professionally, personally,or athletically comes from inside you and your physicalattributes are merely that, tangible aspects of you and thatsall.

If you were given ninety health filled days to live, howwould you live them? Would you throw everything at thewall, put the petal to the metal, dive the deepest blue sea,scale the highest peak?

Although, you could live truthfully, confident, secure inyourself, and show all the beautiful colors that you cameinto this world with, those colors that have been skewedand faded for such a long time.

This mindset of not taking today or tomorrow for grantedand knowing that the end could happen at anytime; andtherefore living this gift of life as honest, not only toyourself, but others, is extremely powerful.

The truth will set you free!

Insecurity cages you in a personal prison when you couldbe sailing behind warm winds towards a brighter and moregratifying future. It rents space in your mind and asks youto pay its bills. It impedes your personal progression andtells you that you can’t, when you can.

Regretfully, this is an internal force, not something externalthat you can run far away from and never see again.

Looking back, do you see your past and at some pointsfeeling so insecure in some situations that the required taskcouldn’t be completed because you felt inept?

Were you so insecure within that you had to feel secure bycontrolling others? If you were secure, you would knowthat your security is about letting go and having faith inyour abilities no matter what situation your in.

Being secure is not “I’m better than you and I’m going toconstantly show you;" to the contrary, it is an innerconfidence 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 thewhole scheme of things, so wouldn’t it be better to getbest you can out of yourself instead of lockingeverything up in an internal safe of insecurities?

--by Brian Maloney-ValuePrep.com Want to improve your personal values? Get high-quality relationship advice from a 'Logical' standpoint. Visit Relationship Help - ValuePrep

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