Setting Yourself Free From The Curse of Competency.

We all have it.

Some time ago, you had success with something. You were good at it. People loved it and appreciated it when you did it. They said nice things to you about what you did

Then things changed for you. You found something new you wanted to move onto. You might have even been forced to change.

You worked hard at your new activity. Your skills grew. Your enjoyment increased and so did the rewards.

But people who knew you in your previous competence, come up and ask you to do it again. They tell you how good you were at it. They compare you favourably with the people who are doing it for them now. They ask you to do it again.

The Curse of Competency is like a piece of old clothing, from another part of your life that doesn't exist anymore, doesn't relate to you anymore. It hangs in your wardrobe still and every time you open your wardrobe, it catches your eye as it hangs there.

And just like those old clothes in your wardrobe, these old competencies cling to your identity, your view of yourself, and ultimately how others see you.

And just like the clothes, they stop you from completely embracing your present and they limit your successes.

How do you set yourself free from this limiting part of your identity, this limiting view that others have on you?

You first of all acknowledge them, then you can set them free.

Most people don't even notice that they have a museum of a wardrobe, full of ex lovers, their mum and their dad, old lifetimes and times where they were stuck....it's only when they identify those clothes that have that meaning attached, that they can move them out of their wardrobes, out of their lives.

In the same way, if you can recognise you are hanging onto old talents and successes and that they are diluting your effectiveness in your present endeavors...and even diluting how clearly others see you - then you can complete with them and let them go.

You set yourself free with your awareness.