5 WAYS TO KNOW YOU'VE LOST YOURSELF!

Have you lost yourself?  Are you so absorbed in your career, in your relationship, in the daily grind, or in an addiction that you’ve lost sight of who you are or where you’d like to be in life? Here are five ways to know you've lost yourself.

1. You don’t do the things that really used to give you pleasure.
2. You feel numb.
3. You feel like life is just passing you by.
4. You’ve let yourself go.
5. You don’t like your life.

There are other ways, can you think of some?  Can you see the theme? The underlying thread weaving it all together is:  You aren’t stepping into your magnificence.  For whatever reason, you’ve placed something/someone ahead of your own needs and desires.  This isn’t a right or wrong kind of thing.  Don’t beat yourself up because it happened; have compassion.  Now that you recognize what’s going on, it’s time to pick yourself up by the bootstraps and take some action toward your new and improved life.  We aren’t meant to live “small,” sitting on the sidelines watching the Game of Life.  Even if you are an introvert (and that’s another article because I have some thoughts on that topic), you aren’t meant to use it as an excuse to shrink from this world.  Life contracts as we contract.  We all have gifts we bring into this world.  We all can positively contribute by owning our value and worth, and using it for our highest good and the highest good of all.  It isn’t selfish to let ourselves shine and to bring out the best in us.  When we do that, we step into our magnificence which beautifies the world in a whole new way, and it gives others permission and inspiration to step into theirs.  It takes courage to live life to its fullest and to follow your own path–not some else’s path.

By K.G