FREEDOM COMES IN FULL
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After witnessing how completely (and how rapidly) years of self-intimidation were replaced by inspiration, I could not help but consider what had made the difference in this case. Why had this not happened before now? Why had I been so completely overwhelmed by such a minor detail to begin with? And why had I remained so blind along the way?
Also: who could have imagined that such powerful momentum would be waiting on the other side? And who could have imagined that one simple step beyond the paralyzing sense of personal inadequacy was the evidence of competence I assumed to be so absent for so long?
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The pleasure of surprise could not have been more thrilling or complete. So as I rode the wave of inspiration into new forms of creative application, the answers to these questions landed, too.
I realized that my inability to act for all those years was a direct result of how I viewed myself. I realized that the smallness of that view had gone entirely unquestioned until now.
I realized that this is the way subconscious limitation tends to work: our smallness is assumed without debate; we come to think of it as “simple fact.”
I realized that release from those self-limiting beliefs came right on time: it could not have come sooner than it did.
It simply wasn’t time until it was.
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I needed to encounter life in all the ways I did until that point. I needed to become inspired by those brands.
I needed to meet Lara, and experience her genius, and be moved by her example in real time.
(Lara is my wife + daily muse.) I needed her to show me what to do.
CONTINUED…
But when the freedom came, it came in full. The sense of smallness vanished all at once.
And this is how our growth emerges, too: it seems to be inactive; then explodes.
The breakthrough always lands in perfect timing - to expand us.
We need only allow that when it does.