What do you want to do, to look like, to be? Do you think you have a choice? What’s holding you back? Do you make time to ask yourself these kinds of questions?
We all want something, and we usually want that something because of the way we think we’ll feel when we get it. We can decide who we want to be, and we can decide how to feel on purpose. (And spoiler alert: feeling good all the time is not the point, or the goal.)
Learning to accept ourselves as we move toward what we want is work worth doing.
This is especially true when changes happen to us, since they’re usually not ones we’d choose. I didn’t choose to have thinning hair, but I did decide how to respond to it. (After lots of denial, rejection, hiding and shame, of course. What life would be complete without all those things? No human life, that’s for sure!)
Through coaching, I’ve been able to accept and alter my experience—of hair loss, of work, of parenting, of loving (myself and others), of so-called “negative” emotions—so I’m much better equipped to go after things I really, genuinely want.
Now, tell me…what do you want?