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Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan  Let me ask you this: Do you feel that you owe anyone anything? Why? |
That's a hard question to answer. I will say that most of my life I've felt I've had to JUSTIFY my existence, in my own head. I know this is not uncommon, but I always felt like an alien from another planet and that I didn't fit in and I was awkward and weird and unlovable (childhood crap).
Slowly, I've pulled away from that. But when you think you're unworthy, it really doesn't matter what it is: when you do something good for yourself, you get cognitive dissonance: your new belief that you deserve the "good stuff" conflicts with your life-long belief that you deserve anything BUT the good stuff. The two beliefs compete and you have an internal explosion.
Big challenge for me to overcome this. So I just had to say "you know what? I kick ass at my job. I do my best. I'm never calling in sick. I do my job. Don't I DESERVE to take some time off? Don't I DESERVE to enjoy life?" And of course I actually had to wrestle with those questions.
I think it's the same with prosperity: I have to JUSTIFY to the WORLD why little old me actually DESERVES to live an abundant lifestyle.