Adjust Your Crown & Release Your Confidence
…you actually are also wearing a crown; you just need to adjust it and wear it with confidence. However, all the other hats of life have pushed the crown aside, and it's barely hanging on, along with your confidence.
When we think about a crown, the first thing that comes to mind is royalty. You imagine the headgear that Kings and Queens wear. Many of us wear several hats in our day-to-day lives, i.e., parent, teacher, driver, housekeeper, cook, counselor, nurse, mediator, etc. One hat we rarely list is a crown. However, you actually are also wearing a crown; you just need to adjust it and wear it with confidence. All the other hats of life have pushed the crown aside, and it's barely hanging on, along with your confidence. Sometimes, we think we have it all together. People ask us how we are doing, and we reply….I’m good…..blessed and highly favored…..great (with a thumbs up). However, behind the mask, we are tore up from the floor up. My mask was beating my chest and saying I’m good, I’m a soldier… I for so long put on this façade. The bad thing about it is I truly believed it. Then one day, someone I loved dearly said something to me that hurt my feelings, and I immediately got into my feelings. Within 10 minutes, that negative narrative started coming back again. Thoughts like…I told you, you weren’t good enough.
How are you going to tell somebody to walk in their purpose, and you get your feelings hurt that quick? You don’t even have confidence in yourself. I immediately started saying to myself, I AM Enough. I AM Confident. I AM Good Enough. I AM Beautiful. I AM Gorgeous. Over and over again, I repeated these positive affirmations. I looked in the mirror and began to talk to the reflection I saw in the mirror (me). This time repeating these affirmations with authority. This process was emotional. There were tears, there was anger (both at the person that made the comment and myself).
I was angry at myself for allowing the negative narrative to creep up. The good thing about it was this time, I had the tools to combat the negative narrative. When I look in the mirror, I subconsciously had to adjust my crown and pull back the confidence in myself. This is to say, Walking in Your Purpose is not easy. You are going to be challenged. The negative narrative will creep up from time to time, but always remember when this happens, face it. Look in the mirror, adjust your crown and release your confidence so you can reset and actively Walk In Your Purpose.
