day 2 ~ making a commitment

i am blown away by the others taking part in this journey: both by the words written on your own blogs and the kind comments left on mine. and that alone is giving me the impetus to stay committed to this, but i know more is required...

i wanted to play full out today but, as it was my husbands first day off nights, i got a little distracted! so it's just a level one commitment for now. and probably just as well. i tend to get a little carried away with resolutions, and then end up completing very few of them!

what i'm going to commit to, for the next 28 days, is not write anything undermining myself in my soul coaching posts. this is something i have always struggled with. sometimes because i am genuinely uncertain or insecure. sometimes to be modest. sometimes because i fear if i don't point out my flaws, someone else will. and sometimes because i think it makes me a little more likeable, unthreatening. but i realise this actually serves very little purpose. and it certainly does not bring me any closer to who i want to be.

some time ago i read this quote:

our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. it is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. we ask ourselves, who am i to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? actually, who are you not to be? you are a child of god. your playing small does not serve the world. there is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. we are all meant to shine, as children do. we were born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us. it's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~ marianne williamson

and it resonated deeply with me. and today it speaks to me louder than ever.