I work with a lot of overachievers. And every one of them has some kind of story around why they are not enough.

What they need to be enough.

I was just talking with a client who found himself overcommitting.

Over and over and over.

Most coaches would have worked on productivity. On streamlining his commitments.

But to me, the interesting questions are always upstream.

There is no such thing as a time management problem.

The only issue is priorities. Where you choose to spend your time.

Where you time will have the most impact on the business.

After working together a few months, my client discovered that he wasn’t prioritizing his business. He was prioritizing what he thought would get him attention. Approval. Validation as a good person.

But “enough” is an inside game. No one else can ever convince you.

When you see this, you choose differently. Automatically.

See you are already enough, and then what will you create?

The most powerful work that I have done, with myself and others, is inner work.

Looking at how we are creating our world, moment by moment.

Looking at how we can never experience the outside world directly. We can only experience our thinking, and our thinking is constantly changing.

Seeing that behind the cacophony of those thoughts, those voices, those judgments, there is a quieter knowing that is constantly guiding us.

Surrendering to that and seeing where it takes us.

Creating from a place of knowing that we are already enough.

Creating knowing we are already everything and always have been.

Come join me.

It’s easy to think that you are not making a decision. But every day you choose to continue in the job you are in, in the business you are pursuing.

Does that thought make you feel alive, or like you are slowly dying?

The first step to making a change is the most important one, and the hardest.

Stop thinking things are ok. Stop thinking things are good enough. Stop thinking things will change.

“Things” cannot do that.

Only you can. And you can choose differently.

What are you choosing to create? Is it bringing you alive? Or is it “good enough for now?”

Good enough is never good enough. Good enough is the path to regret.

The curse of being a coach is that you see what is actually possible for people.

The things that people don’t see for themselves.

The things that people REFUSE to see for themselves.

I’ve asked myself why that is. Why people refuse to try. And the only conclusion that I have come to is that fear, now, is more difficult than regret later.

The regret will come. On some level, we all know it. We’ve felt it. The times that we didn’t play all out. That we could have done just a little better and it would have made a huge difference.

We told ourselves at the time that the effort wasn’t worth it, or that we really weren’t good enough. That we were certain that we would try and fail. Because sometimes we have, and it hurts.

So we tell ourselves that things are “really good” right now, in that high pitched voice that isn’t really convincing anyone.

If you see a ceiling, that’s you creating it. Saving yourself the disappointment of trying and failing.

What if you really committed to something bigger? What would that success mean to you? To your sense of fulfillment and meaning and purpose? To the family who sees you at your very best instead of the malaise you keep saying is “really good?”

Sometimes it just takes a person or two in your corner, an encouraging word at the right time, to change everything.

Let me know if you would like that in your life. Let me know if you would like to see what is really possible.