Looking Good, Being Right and Going Nowhere!

Have you ever noticed that you are always right?

It's all part of being human.

It's really important that we are right and it's really important that we look good to others.

This is so in varying degrees for everyone. It's somehow linked in with survival and it lives deep inside our identity.

The trick, as usual, is to be aware of it when you find yourself "Being Right and Looking Good"

Admitting to it really helps to pop you out of it. Denial is such a powerful and subtle process. It's no wonder at AA meetings everyone stands up and says: "I am an alcoholic!" Phew! I'm glad that's out! I was begining to beleive that I wasn't! Now what's there to deal with?

Imagine if you could admit: "I always have to be right and I always have to look good, even if it means I'm going nowhere!" - How liberating! How freeing!

I just read Liz Strauss talk about humility and how the minute you try to be humble, you instantly become pompus and full of yourself. Funny how if you admit to being pompus and full of yourself, you instantly expereience your humility!

....and the minute you start saying how authentic you are, you become as phoney as a cheap champagne. Strange isn't it, how to experience your authenticity requires you to admit to your basic inauthenticity! Boom! You pop right into your authenticity!

So, where are you being right in your life right now? What areas are you trying to look good in? Where are you being inauthentic?

Being wrong, looking bad and being inauthentic are the doorways to who you really are! Black is the new White!