“A great man is willing to be little” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humble yourself or life will do it for you.

Staying humble can be one of those things that takes a little extra conscious awareness at times.

I realised that in order to make any kind of achievement in my life that I was going to be satisfied with, I needed it to feel earned. Properly, earned. If you go about that the right way, you can’t really have an ego. They are almost mutually exclusive. If you don’t open yourself up to the world around you and allow it to offer you what can potentially be incredible insight and a new perspective, you are limiting your growth significantly. Ego also gets in the way of you seeing the small things. If this happens to you, you won’t be grateful for all the things you do have because you will believe you deserve so much more.

As hard as this is to hear, but you probably have exactly what you deserve in a way, for the good and the bad. Perhaps there is something you need to be doing differently to get to where you need to be if your current circumstance is not working for you. Unfortunately, not everything in life is going to be on your terms. That doesn’t mean your not a good person who isn’t trying so so so hard to get to where you need to be, it just means you might need to try a different strategy. In moments like this it’s easy to give up and look for an excuse as to why it didn’t work out. If you do choose to take the easy route and give up, you will fail and not achieve your goal 100% of the time. But if you do honestly want it, admit to yourself that you may need to try harder and fight for it with everything you have, and even when that’s exhausted, keep fighting, you might be totally surprised about what you can handle and what your threshold really is. It’s likely MUCH greater than you could have ever imagined. The sky really is the limit and as long as you truly believe that you’re giving yourself the best possible chance of reaching it!