Do you ever feel like a square peg trying to fit into a round hole? It’s difficult, isn’t it?
I’m the type that I don’t give up easy either. I would rather take that peg and twist it until the edges round, but why I ask myself. Why would I put that much effort into anything? It’s clear that if it doesn’t come naturally it probably isn’t meant to be. How do you feel about this?
I do realize that we can give up way to easy, but who am I to judge. Don’t you agree that this could be a limiting belief? I think it’s awesome that people are dropping and picking up so easy today. The sky is the limit as they say, and some believe because of the footsteps on the moon the sky is not even the limit.
Think Big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small. – Tim Ferriss
Did I believe this when I was running my business? No, not at all. I was actually opposite and I kept stomping on all my values everyday. I put limits on my life, dreams, career and business. I stopped listening to my own advice and started asking for others who never ever succeeded in running a business and I forgot to believe in me. As it happened I was putting a square peg in a round hole way too many times and it wasn’t fitting. I was forgetting my values and I lost myself in the process.
We all have days feeling like a square peg trying to fit in a round hole, but keep moving forward towards your dreams, desires and ambitions living your authentic self
What are Values? I do know my values, but I still question sometimes until I realize those are not values of mine, they are words and actions that have been told to me. True Values will become your compass, they will steer you to happiness.
What are my values? Peacefulness, Spirituality, Gratitude, Laughter, Uniqueness, Reflection, Deep Connections, Authenticity, Respect, Integrity and Acceptance. How do I know this? My very first Life Coach I seen three years ago was Danielle Reed, in just one session she wrote out my values and I knew them to be true, but I wasn’t living my values at all. In the past three years Danielle has published her own value cards and a workbook and I would highly recommend both. In one day Danielle changed my life, I returned home from Alberta and kept looking at my values and I didn’t recognize myself in any of them. To be honest I knew in my heart they were my values, but I was embarrassed of what I was looking at. Why would I be embarrassed?
I was that square peg that would shy from groups, conversations and places because I felt I never fit in. I now have learned that we all have a place in this world. It saddens me to think that some has left the world because they were a square peg or they felt they were and really they were extraordinary and if they had the opportunity to live their true values and not to be judged, they would have found out the world needs more uniqueness and they would have felt, what love feels like.
We cannot be embarrassed of our values and we cannot listen to other people who judge them and make us believe that we are or we have to appear to be something different then we are.
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy – the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. – Brene Brown
Getting back to the days when we feel we are putting a square peg in a round hole. This was my horoscope for this week. As I sat and read my horoscope, it spoke to me because it described what I have been going through lately. There seems to be square pegs everywhere and it is so damn hard to get them lined up and to fit in those round holes. I have to go back to what I said in the beginning if it don’t come naturally why am I putting so much effort into it? My answer is very clear, I am trying to do it all myself. We all need to reach out sometimes and this may mean hiring a housecleaner, going for coffee with someone that can lift you up, a coach to help with those square pegs, and for me I need to reach out and make those phone calls for help and to ask myself more questions, am I living my true values or is there a gap.
With Gratitude and Love
Angela