You Are Your Greatest Project - by Tioluwani Aina

<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000353979.jpg"/>There are people you will meet in this life that you will have no choice but to respect them. They don't know what it means to have an elastic limit because when they fall ten times, they get up twelve. They're always two steps ahead and just seem to stay on top of situations almost all of the time. Perhaps, at some point in our own lives or when the situation called for it, we've been those people too.Maybe it was that extremely important exam to our education/career that was coming up so we HAD to be at alert, or, it may have been a course that we swore on our lives not to carryover so we really had to be ten toes down or it could've been a financial target that had to be hit no matter what. The best part is, we probably did do those things! But after what we had at stake has helped us run its course, what's next? Because we find out that; that motivation, that energy, isn't there like before.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000353986.jpg"/>You see, when the situation calls for it, we reach into the depths of our being and begin to perform in ways that surprise us. We acquire a taste for what our semi-realized potential can do when we decide to unearth it and that experience is not one that is easy to let go of. You seem to have drank Nectar from the gods and now you're being forced to down Action Bitters.Now, you are left restless because you go about your life with the knowledge of what you are capable of. That test you didn't perform up to your expectations in? You know that if only you pushed further than normal, you could've satisfied those expectations, heck, even surpassed them. But you didnt, therefore it haunts you.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000353981.jpg"/>You start to tell yourself that "I know if I truly locked in, there was no way I couldn't have aced that", now the thing is, if this isn't acted on, you start to turn into what we will call Mr Potential Man or CouldaWoulda Woman.These other people that we respect so much though, these "superhumans", we see them go from one thing to the next, from one thing to another, and they're not doing anyhow work o, it's prestigious! You start to ask yourself how they do it; how they have all this energy and find time to do all this.The thing is: the things that drove us out of our inertia to do the things we had to do were external in nature. Those stakes were outside of you, given to you with their own configurations which you didn't really have that much control over. Although, this approach is particularly efficient and works for short to mid-term goals, they don't do much to sustain you long term.So what is one to do?The answer hides in plain sight, well sort of, and it beckons on us: softly and in whispers(or loud if you're built different) to go inner, deeper, wider, within. Who am I? What resonates with me? What am I comfortable enough with to talk about for hours? What makes me excited? What is my purpose?You start to notice that these "high achievers" are trying to answer these questions too(spoiler alert: nobody has it all figured out) but their secret is, they are serving something bigger than them. It's not even about the current task at hand that they do, it's how what they're doing right now can splash the necessary colour on the bigger picture. Once that brush has spread its hue, they reach for the next one.<img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/1000353988.jpg"/>Those tasks just serve as tools for them to mold themselves into the greatest versions they will live to witness. To bring that big picture in their mind of who they know they can be, to life.Therein lies the difference: one looks and grounds themselves within to become someone they can't live without, the other ignores their essence and instead chases functional but transient shadows.All that is required to reach Nirvana is already within us but we have to start by believing we are Worth. Every. Shot.You are David inside of the marble, do yourself a favour and sculpt yourself out AND taste and see if the world wouldn't be yours for the taking.

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