I’ve recently figured out that humanity seems to have the same limiting belief that I have, and it’s time to get over that and open up to our full potential.
This New Year's Eve, I met another Aquarius Two, and that was really exciting. I’m an Aquarius from Western astrology and 2 from the Enneagram. In the Enneagram, the 2 is a Helper whose challenge is to figure out how to take care of themself as well as they take care of others. An Aquarius has vast visions, ideas and dreams about how they want to make a better world.
This combination, as I summarized, basically makes us codependent with humanity. I want to help humanity so, so much, and I have made the foolish gamble of tethering my sense of wellbeing to the success of humanity. When combined, the challenge for an Aquarius 2 is to learn how to take care of myself as well as I desire to take care of humanity. That's a lot. It's hard to imagine giving myself that much love.
As I think about this more, I'm beginning to realize that it works both ways. The lessons that I am trying to learn for myself are the same lessons humanity needs to learn. Actually, it's advice that I would give to just about anyone. The message that I am learning this new year is that:
I already have everything I need to fulfill all my dreams.
I simply need to trust myself and put them into action.
It is time for me to let go of that mother of all limiting beliefs, the one that makes me think that I'm not enough. I'm not good enough. I'm not ready enough. I'm not deserving enough. It says there's probably someone else who is supposed to do this, someone more qualified or more prepared. The voice says it's probably impossible to do what I want to do with my life.
It seems that this limiting belief haunts humanity as well. Collectively, we easily fall into the trap of accepting the status quo as immutable. It's easy to fall into the belief that it's impossible to overcome our divisions and build the world we want to live in. We're not sure if we deserve to even dream as big as we could.
This line of thinking is ridiculous. Worthiness, deserving, and enough-ness are not even valid questions. They don't have meaning. Similarly, perfection is not possible. We are all here and, consequently, we are pre-approved.
And this is true:
We already have everything we need to thrive and make this planet into the world we dream of.
It has already been decades since we've had enough food to feed everyone. We have enough resources, technology, and money for every human being to live a great life. We have the heart, and we have the ingenuity.
Yet, we seem to have this strong limiting belief that it's not possible.
Recently, I've been noticing that this topic is really triggering for me. It makes me emotional and deeply angry to hear people say it's impossible to figure out how we can get along, unite, and collaborate across our differences. It pains me to listen to people say we can't fix these problems when I can clearly see how much is possible for us. In my country, Americans seem to have resigned themselves to things being crappy and inadequate. People seem to accept we’re stuck in a cycle of bickering and disagreement.
Now I know it makes me angry because I can see that same dynamic in myself.
We don't have to live this way. We have all the answers to be as prosperous as we could want to be. We have an abundance of brilliance and so many beautiful dreams. We care so much, so deeply. This cuts straight to the heart of all of us, and that’s why it's so scary. We have to learn to trust ourselves; I have to trust myself.
So again, this is my advice for myself, for everyone, all of us together, and for you:
Remember, you have everything you need to start making the world you want to live in.
Every answer to your questions is within you.
All you need to do is start believing it's possible, and then get to work.
It's okay to evolve and grow just a little at a time. Nothing's going to change immediately. It's all shades of increasing adequacy. We don't have to change everything at once. That's an illusion. However, we can start right now by making incremental changes, and in the long run, we can change things massively.
In this new year 2020, we are invited to think about a new kind of resolution. Let's make a New Decade's Resolution.
Bill Gates said, "We tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year. But we underestimate what we can accomplish in ten years."
How different would your life look, would my life look, would the whole world look if we spent the next ten years believing that life could be as extraordinary as we could dream? What if we accepted that the only thing missing was our will to put our dreams into action?
The possibility of what we could accomplish with this mindset is so big that we might not even be able to dream big enough to imagine what we could achieve if we put our hearts into it.
Let's drop this illusory sense of inadequacy. It's time for us to integrate our separate parts, beauty, and flaws to start the slow, incremental work of building the world we want to live in.
It's not up to anyone else to do it. There's literally no one else.
I believe in us. I believe in myself. I believe in you.
So, let's get our asses up and dust ourselves off. And let's do that again and again for as long as it takes. We've got this.
I love you all, all of you, so much.
Let's create spaces together to think of these New Decade Resolutions.
Leave a message here. Send me an email. Let's talk this out on the phone or get together in person.
Tell me, what is your ten-year dream?