Mediocrity

Who feels mediocre?

I am not mediocre I am content.  Maybe you feel what you have achieved is OK and that greatness only happens to exceptional people.

Maybe you have been told that you can’t do that unless you have a lot of money or a masters degree.

Do you watch E news and wish you had that life?

Do you scroll Instagram and envy all of those rich, successful people?

Are you angered because people don’t understand your struggle?

I am not going to blow smoke up your ass and tell you that you can achieve anything you want.  I do believe that occasionally that isn’t possible.

BUT I will say that what most of us REALLY want IS achievable and it is about our own personal story or the kool-aid that we drink.

I have often felt I wasn’t a good mom and that maybe I shouldn’t give other people advice.

I think that is wrong

I have often felt my writing was so so and nobody would every read it

I think that is wrong

I have often felt my mistakes in life would prevent me from being inspiring

Yep, I am pretty sure that isn’t true.

I was told that my success would come from education.

ummm not really.  I have a LOT of education, not sure I am any more successful

So guess what?

I wrote a book and it wasn’t published.  I tried and they turned me down.  It devastated me.

I will publish it myself

I wrote some vignettes and nobody has read them because, well, they wouldn’t publish my book so they must be crap.

Wrong.  I will publish those myself.

I am a good mom.  A mom that made mistakes that made me better.

I AM inspiring.  People tell me every day.

I can be successful because I am the one who determines what that is.

Change up your kool-aid.

Spike it with truth and confidence.

Stop listening to people who have already qualified you.

Stop being mediocre