The Power of Cheerful Acceptance

From Simply danLrene

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you.  Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."  ~Helen Keller (1880-1968)

I have trouble keeping to an exercise plan.  I have a trouble maintaining a healthy diet.  I have a tendency to float from "big idea" to "big idea."  I consider these to be some of my deficiencies.  Even at the time I am writing this, I allow these deficiencies to define me.  I feel I am not worthy because I can't keep to an exercise plan or maintain a healthy diet which prevents me from reaching a healthy weight.  The key to cheerful acceptance is the ability to acknowledge your deficiencies without letting them define you.  I can accept that I have trouble keeping to an exercise plan WITHOUT letting that define me as not worthy.  the same can be said about strengths.  We also need to accept our strengths without letting them define us.  It is just as easy for me to say, I am worthy because I am talented at singing.  In order to move towards cheerful acceptance of who we are, we need to develop a belief that we are worthy because of our uniqueness and nothing else.  Our uniqueness is defined by our strengths and our deficiencies.

I have only just begun this journey to acceptance.  I know there is power in cheerfully accepting who I am and who I can become.  Knowing that you need to do something is a far cry from being able to do it.  We are bombarded on all sides with messages that tell us what we need to be/do to be worthy.  Embracing Cheerful Acceptance means having the courage to disregard all of these messages and accept who we are...."warts" and all acknowledge our inherent worthiness.  I know that once I am able to Cheerfully Accept my inherent worthiness, I will be more sure of myself.  Once I take the responsibility of defining my worthiness away from others and make it my own, I will have the power move forward and be successful, because I will accept that my success is in my power and no one else's.