Don't Change

Hope this Tuesday finds you inspired and ready for another week full of joy and abundance professionally and personally.

Of course we’re talking about personal growth here and it’s not about changing who you are, but rather blossoming into more of who you really are.

So in that bent - let me ask you have you ever watched a flower bloom?

It's a remarkable process - not of becoming something different, but of unfurling into what it already is. The rose doesn't strain to become a lily. The daisy doesn't doubt its worth against the orchid. Each simply opens into its own unique expression, fully that is.

Yet in our human journey of growth, we so often get caught in the trap of trying to become someone else entirely. We chase idealized versions of ourselves, following prescriptive paths of self-improvement that can feel more like self-rejection. "Be more confident," we're told. "Be more productive. Be more disciplined." As if we're somehow incomplete in our current form.

But what if we've misunderstood what growth really means?

What I think we need to consider is this -

True personal development might be less about adding layers and more about peeling them away. Less about forcing change and more about allowing emergence. It's about creating the conditions for your inherent nature to express itself fully - like providing the right soil, water, and light for a seed to become what it already knows how to become.

This isn't an invitation to stagnation or complacency. Rather, it's a radical shift in how we approach our evolution. Instead of asking "How can I fix myself?” we might ask "What's preventing my natural gifts from shining through?" Instead of "What should I become?" we could wonder "What am I when I'm most authentically myself?"

This is what I’m finding so liberating in recent weeks and months for myself. I’m not shying away from being expressive, but instead I’m expressing wholeheartedly what’s inside. I’m being me. I’m reveling in all the passion that dwells within and I’m sharing that more and I’m finding incredible freedom in showing up this way.

So I’d invite you - the next time you feel the urge to dramatically reinvent yourself, pause. Consider that your deepest growth might not come from becoming someone new, but from having the courage to be more fully who you already are. Your brilliance isn't waiting to be created - it's waiting to be revealed.

In closing I leave you with this - let’s together explore our growth as an infinite revelation of who we truly are.

In Gratitude,

Sue

P.S. - For more of my writing check out these recent posts -

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Self-Love Without The Guilt

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