Know Your Worth, Never Settle for Less than Who You Can Be

Published: Mon, 07/08/19

You are what you settle for
Janus Joplin

I understood early in my writing career that never giving up was my stand against settling for what was handed to me by circumstance. Little did I know that my very first book would bring me to the edge feeling disillusioned and ready to quit. When I finished Dancehall - a Jamaican crime thriller, I looked at the finished product that I had published through a traditional publisher, and I was disappointed and angry. I had never imagined my first book would end up the way it did, and I was beginning to ask myself if I was cut out to be a writer.

Walk with a limp, if it means you never settle for Less..

There are times in our lives when quitting seems like the best option. When we are in the middle of a maelstrom, it feels like we have run out of options, but that is never the case. Even when your working on your passion which I was in my case. The weight of adversity doesn’t go away when ‘doing what we love.’ It sometimes test us more than the usual. We might as well make peace with it because there are still hard times ahead, no matter what choices you make. You will always have to fight through the temptations to settle for less even when we know moving forward means you’re continually growing. But as painful as that can be, settling for mediocre is a whole different sense of loss and disappointment. If you give it the opportunity, it will nibble away at your self worth and over time will make you unrecognisable to yourself.

Change is good.
But many of us are content with comfort, and that is dangerous. Why though?
I don’t think it’s because we’re lazy, I just think we are scared of taking risks. The thought of stepping out of our comfort zone frightens us. What should really scare us is looking around and seeing people who were in the same position or level as you were and did not settle. They have become leaders, changing themselves, changing their communities, the world, and humankind. How do you feel about that? Happiness? Satisfaction? Indifference or Disappointment? If you’re anything like me It’s the last one, maybe I am wrong, I don’t know.
But what I do know is that I will not settle for less. That is average thinking.

“Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.”― Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Make discomfort, your friend. Go the extra mile. Never settling is understanding that the only way to get comfortable with something you are uncomfortable with is to do it, and then do it again, and again, and again.
We are creating our own reality every day with our actions. Never settle and make every step forward count.

Peace

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