In her book, A Path Made Clear, Oprah talks about the doubters that tried to tell her she wouldn’t be able to pull off her Leadership School for Girls in Africa. She replied to one particular reporter who was giving her a hard time about it,
“Don’t bet against me. You can not defeat someone who knows who they truly are. I know who I am and why I am truly doing this, so I would not bet against me.”
You can not defeat someone who knows who they truly are. I believe this to be true.
The storms of life teach us who we truly are. You don’t figure that out when life is easy and things are rolling because you are deceived into thinking you have everything figured out.
You sort yourself out when things are hard, but when the stakes are so high that giving up isn’t an option.
That is when your beliefs, your conditioning, and your behaviour programs are showing up in full force.
That is when everyone else is trying to tell you who you are.
That is when you get to choose who you want to be and how you are going to show up.
And when you figure out that you have a power within you that is guiding you, and you align your intention (why you are doing what you are doing) with it, you can not be defeated.
And once you get a taste of it, you can apply it everywhere in your life.
The stakes are always high, you just might not see it yet.