Are You A Superhero? (Spoiler alert: YES! You Are!)

My mom used to say: Life is change, growth is optional.

She was right. Life IS change. Every second, life changes. The person you see in the mirror in the morning will be an older version at the end of the day. Change just hapens. Growth is different. Growth doesn’t JUST HAPPEN. Like the quote says; it’s optional...

When was the last time you experienced growth in your life? When was the last time you moved the needle up in your life? If it’s been a while, let me ask another question? How do you FEEL about yourself right now? Chances are, if you’re not growing, and not turning the needle up; you’re probably not feeling good about yourself either. Guess what? Growth, is directly related to how you FEEL about yourself. If you’re not feeling good, you’re probably not setting new goals, or challenging yourself. AND…I’m sorry to say, it gets worse. When you don’t feel good about yourself, you’ll also be missing one very important thing: your sense of purpose. Purpose is also directly related to how we FEEL about ourselves.

Stick with me!

How we feel about ourselves comes from when we were kids. Some kids got parents who made them feel like superheroes for doing things like: eating from a spoon for the first time without spilling, achieving goals, or tying your own shoes. Other kids mastered spoons, achieved goals, and tied their own damn shoes and no one said anything. Those kids grew up thinking those things were no big deals. BUT THEY WERE A BIG DEAL! It’s not only amazing to do all of those things, it’s also YOUR RIGHT to feel amazing because of it!

I’m serious! When was the last time you felt good about yourself? If you were a kid who never felt like a superhero, sadly you may never remember feeling good either. Decades may have passed without you being able to feeling proud of yourself. THE GOOD NEWS: you can change that! Remember, you're changing every second of everyday anyway - SO…start today by giving yourself some credit. I’m serious - did you see those shoes of yours?! You tied them yourself!!!

Sounds dumb? It’s not! What if allowing yourself to feel a tiny win today, makes you smile? What if it that innocent little smile produces a tiny bit of positive energy? What if that tiny bit of positive energy gives you the incentive to say something nice to someone else today? What if saying something nice to someone else makes you feel even better? What if that one tiny smile you created by being proud of yourself not only turned your life’s energy up; but it turned someone else’s energy up too!? What if this was supposed to happen everyday since you were little and this was how you were supposed to build your self-worth/self-love AND from that you would have found your purpose?

Maybe today, your purpose is to find ways to feel good about yourself, find love inside for who you are, and begin to be proud of what you can do. Tie those shoes! Smile! Turn up your frequency! Maybe even turn someone else’s up too! Start to feel good!

Today, realize you are a superhero and you’ve always been one… Tomorrow, use that energy to start growing and find your purpose!

Sending you oodles of love to feel on the inside,

~ Happy Amy

Don’t forget to grab a copy of my book: Full Speed In Reverse, Awakening Self-Worrh, Happiness, and Purpose.