Don’t permit others to determine your value and worth!
I read anywhere from 30 to 50 books per year, and often folks ask me, where do I come up with the books that I read? I enjoy different types of genres including memoirs, non-fiction, behind the scenes, self-help and more. Some of the books are fiction with an inspirational and self-help variety. I suggest if you find a great book, share it with others. Write a review, tell the author that you love the book and share the knowledge with your family and friends.
Recently my coach and mentor, Kary Oberbrunner, recommended the “The Book of Mistakes” by Skip Pritchard. It's an excellent book and written in a sort of fable style novel. He discusses nine mistakes that you can make in life. However, one of the mistakes that I will review today is the value of you or the value that others place in you that you don't have to accept.
Mistake ‘Number Two’ is permitting someone else to define your value.
When you permit someone else to determine your worth, you end up impacting the way you look at yourself. In the book he gives an excellent example of value using the penny and a nickel.
The penny we know has a value in the marketplace of 1 cent. However, it costs about 1.5 cents to make it according to money.com. The nickel is worth 5 cents, and according to the Washington Post, it cost 8 cents to make. Too often this is what folks will do, there is more value in a person, but they devalue them, causing the person to doubt their worth.
Think about the following as you go about your day.
A life well-lived is a life true to yourself, not true to others. Let nothing come between you and your purpose. You were given a purpose when you were born, and there's a purpose burned deep into your heart, and only you know what that is. Don't accept the limitations that others put on you. Too often people will profile you. They are going to look at you, and they're going to say, this is what you can do based upon many different things. Maybe they will judge you based on how you were brought up, your race, your religion, your education or lack of education. Whatever limitations it might be that others put on you, don't accept these limitations as a fact.
Regret is a result of any action pulling against our heart's purpose. Regret is living the nightmare of living someone else's dream for your life.
Know your inherent value; your value is excellent and what what you add to others is even exponentially greater. When you give yourself permission to be true to yourself, power is being you.
“The Book of Mistakes” is an excellent book, and I highly recommend it. I learned so much from it that I listened to it and bought the printed form to take notes and keep it as a fast reference.
