Are You A Fraud?

For some reason, this past week, I kept running into the same question from numerous independent and unrelated sources. "What if people find out that I'm not as good as they think I am?" At first I thought this was just some mind trash that women say to themselves pretty frequently, because I have been known to think it now and then myself. However, I surveyed more than one male and found out they say it too! In fact one male friend of mine responded, "Hell yeah! I say that all the time!" So it's not gender related at all. It's just generic mind trash. I wasn't so surprised to hear it, I was just surprised it was so universal!

So I guess now the question is----what do you do about it? How do you stop saying or thinking that? What do you replace it with? Any ideas? I'd love to have more input.

I find it interesting just to think about a room full of people, where each person has a conversation bubble above their head.

If only we could see all the mind trash simultaneously, a room full of people all thinking that they are not as good as they are perceived. Of course, the ideal is to change this thought. How about, "they have no idea how good I really am and I'd love to explore and support how good they are as well!"

I love this quote from Marianne Williamson. I think it sums it up quite nicely.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."


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