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“Get Your Life On Track!:Â How one small change can turn everything around.” That’s what the headline said on the cover of a recent issue of O Magazine.Â
You just KNOW I had to pick that magazine up. If you know me, and I hope you all are getting to know me by this point, I am intrigued by how other experts view “change”.Â
The expert in this case was Martha Beck. In the article, she said that there’s really only one thing that can derail our lives, keep us off course, and leave us living an unmotivated, uncomfortable, unhappy and blah existence. It’s our lenses.Â
Think of Superman and those thick rims he puts on when he wants to turn into Clark Kent and cover his true identity and hide his superpowers. The comic book hero dons his lenses intentionally.
But many of us use our lenses–our excuses–without even knowing it.  And… it’s those very same excuses that keep us stranded in the slow lane to nowhere.
Just like Superman, though, if we can learn to remove our lenses, we can then reveal our own superpowers–our loves, interests, and abilities that get us motivated, accelerating, and aimed for goals and success.
In the O Magazine article, Martha mentioned one of her favorite quotes: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure … Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.” (A Marianne Williamson quote.)Â
I particularly love that last line. Â Does playing small ever make sense? Â How will playing small ever help you reach the full, large life you are meant to live? It’s no coincidence that we all talk about wanting to “live large.” The good life.Â
So it’s time to put our money where our mouth is. We have to take on life in a big way–like Superman, not Clark Kent–if we’re ever to have that long, happy, dream-filled life free from hardships and trepidation. After all, “living large” means, put simply, living a happy existence.  And that is all any of us can ask for … happiness.
