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If you’ve ever set a New Year’s Resolution (regardless of what that resolution was), there’s likely an overarching idea that was at play:

Striving to be BETTER.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be better. Self actualization, self improvement, personal growth and development are WONDERFUL!

(I’m a Personal Fulfillment Coach — these things are my bread and butter!)

…But here’s where a lot of people go “wrong” in their quest for self improvement and betterment:

They view their “current self” as someone who is deficient.

Does that sound familiar?

Here are some thoughts you might experience that indicate you view yourself as deficient:

• “I wish I wasn’t like this.”
• “I’m so disappointed in myself that I’m not farther ahead.”
• “I can’t do XYZ because I’m not good enough to do it.”
• “If only I wasn’t so _____.”
• …etc.

Those thoughts are exactly that: Thoughts. They are not necessarily truth, even though they might feel very true to you ♥

This is a problem that so many people face: You want to be a better version of yourself in a CONTRACTED sort of way…

…You want to STOP being/doing this vs that.

…You don’t like a certain part of yourself very much.

…You want to be LESS of yourself, in one way or another.

Let me reiterate: There’s nothing wrong with wanting to improve oneself or to change! That can be WONDERFUL. But you don’t need to do it by diminishing yourself or lessening yourself or quieting some part of yourself.

You don’t need to improve yourself by focusing so hard on that which you dislike about yourself.

Here’s a different approach that I encourage you to consider: Perhaps, rather than diminishing yourself, there is a beautiful part of yourself that you have been neglecting.

→ What would happen if you embraced being MORE of your core self?

Right now, you are probably hiding some of the best parts of yourself! We don’t want to diminish that light — we don’t want to make you smaller — we want to bring more of the CORE of *you* to the surface.

Personal growth and self development involve identifying those parts of yourself that are at your true core, the unique superpowers you’re currently hiding from yourself and the world… and creating the space for them to flourish.

You don’t need to make yourself smaller. The world doesn’t need a “lesser” version of you — your best self is about being MORE of your unique self.

Your personal growth journey includes building a better relationship with yourself, learning how to be kinder to yourself and improving self compassion, and creating better support systems within yourself so you don’t have so much internal conflict and struggle… so you stop holding yourself back and being your own worst enemy.

Give yourself permission to be MORE of yourself.

Here are 3 questions for your consideration this weekend to get you started…

1. What aspects of yourself do you often try to keep smaller?
2. What part of yourself do you like, some aspect of yourself that feels very YOU, but which few people ever see?
3. How would it feel to focus more on cultivating the second, rather than solely trying to stamp down the first?

As always, I love hearing from you…

Hit reply and let me know what comes up for you in all of this :)

Have a great weekend,
Sagan (she/her)

Personal Fulfillment & Solopreneur Success Coach
​SaganMorrow.com | Twitter | Instagram​

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