Inspired moments......

"Sometimes you just need someone to believe in you to make you see everything you are worth...
I credit that to you."

I received this compliment from a friend last night and it caught me off guard. In a good way, but off guard for sure. I guess I've never really considered myself someone worthy of that credit... credit to making someone see everything they are worth. Maybe because I am not someone who truly knows my entire worth. That's not some attempt at getting people to tell me "omg you are wonderful and oh so worthy" .... rather it's the truth. I know my strong points and overall I know my "worth" -- the overall worth, but I'm just like you, you and may be even you.... I'm not always good at recognizing what I'm good at doing. I often get bogged down in the "I should be. I could be. I would be's" that sometimes I tend to forget the "I am's."

Does that happen to you? Do you find yourself getting caught up in everything you could, would or should be.... or could, would or should do.... only to realize you ARE plenty of everything else?  And that sometimes... if you just stop looking for towards the future and allow  yourself to be in the present moment.... you may actually be able to embrace all that you are..... all of the time?

I find myself there often.  And it's  hard... because I want to always remain humble. I don't want to toot my own horn (loudly) and I don't want to be anything less than what I deem to be perfect.... so I strive, strive, strive.... and in doing so I realize that I missing out on all that I am in the moment everyone else sees it.

If that friend credits me to believing in them.... to making them feel and know what they are worth.... so much that it gives them confidence to not hold back, why is that I don't constantly do the same for myself?   Why is it so much easier to be the voice of reason for other people and it is so difficult to be the voice of reason for ourselves?

Is it a woman thing? A Libra thing? A Tiffany thing?

Is it not even a "thing"?

I guess if anything it is just something I need to keep exploring.  I'm so very honored to be that person to my dear friend. It took no effort as that friend is an amazingly talented person that I know is destined for incredible success and lifelong happiness. I can see that easily because that is often what friends are for.... to remind us of the things that we forget and to encourage us to do the things that we fear the most.

Now to fully be the Tiffany to me... that I am to them.

Tic Toc.

xo