We've all been there. Incredibly overwhelmed by that lurking feeling of not being enough.
"I'm not liked enough", "I'm not loved enough", "I'm not popular enough", "I'm not thin enough", "I'm not asked out enough", "I'm not promoted enough at work"....
You get the picture, you feel that something is lacking.
Leo Babauta of the fabulous Zen Habits, asked his Twitter friends “What fear is holding you back?”. Their responses included:
- Failure
- Abandonment / Rejection
- Intimacy
- Success
- Being broke
- Not being good enough
According to Leo, the fear of not being enough is actually at the root of all the others. And we tend to agree with him.
We're living in a culture of scarcity, focusing on what we lack rather than what we have.
In her book, "Daring Greatly", Brene Brown shows the extent of this on a daily basis. We start our morning thinking that we didn’t get enough sleep, we go through our day worrying about how little time we have to get everything done and then we fall asleep feeling anxious that we failed to tick everything off our to do lists. And it goes on and on.
What if we could wake up and go to sleep with a feeling of gratitide instead? Well we're starting just that with a 30 day gratitude exercise. The Gratitude Journal App is designed to make gratitide a habit, which is perfect because we love our habits.
Basically, you write down 5 things that you're grateful for each day to train your brain to be happier, By practicing awareness of the things we're thankful for (the good stuff), we fight off the brain’s natural tendency to spot the bad stuff. As a result, we train our brains to be more positive and thus happier.
Give it a go and let us know how you get on!
V x
