4 Beliefs That Keep Us From Discovering Our Purpose
If our gifts were to pay us, give us recognition, or offer us money straight off the bat, then we’d be doing it for the wrong reasons.
In order to truly live the lives we are meant to live, we must discover our gifts. We are put on this planet to embrace and share our gifts with the world — that is our purpose. The problem is, we are held back by four major limiting beliefs that sabotage our ability to discover our gifts and pursue our purpose.
All of these beliefs have one thing in common: they protect us from feeling shame. I’m going to break down why these beliefs are false and how you can turn these perceptions around to embody the life you are meant to live.
#1 We have to know what our gifts are before we pursue them.
The first assumption is that we need to know our gifts before we take the leap of faith and leave our work or change our path entirely. We get scared that if we’re not 100% sure what our gift is, then we risk embarrassing ourselves.
Here is a quote from David Whyte that I want you to think about.
Start close in, don’t take the second step…
