Have you ever felt that you are trying to be the person that someone else wanted you to be?

Did you follow a certain career path or excel in a particular sport or hobby because your parents wanted you to?

Many of our important life choices are shaped by trying to please someone else, or by trying to feel that we are "good enough" to be worthy of their love, time, attention or respect.

For many, this leads to frustration and unhappiness because they are trying to live out someone else's dreams at the expense of their own.

Allow yourself to follow your heart and experience your dreams.

I would like to share with you a song I wrote, which really brings this home. I hope you like it. I would really love to set this to music. If the words resonate with  you and you know anyone who could set it to music, as a catchy, upbeat, uplifting tune I would love to hear from you.

I am more than enough

Chorus

I am good enough,

I am more than enough,

I have everything I need within me to be everything I want to be

I am me, you are you

and I am far better at being me than you ever could be

1) I realise that you meant well for me,

When you pushed me, you only wanted the best for me.

Or were you perhaps trying to live your unfulfilled dreams through me.

Your expectation of me was always so high,

I felt I could never do anything right,

and nothing I ever did was good enough in your eyes.

I may be your child, yet I am not you, nor could I ever be

Chorus

2) I know my dreams far better than you ever could,

I know who I am and who I want to be

I know what I want to do and what I want to have

Please let me do that for myself,

Please let me strike out on my path,

and make my mistakes as I go

I know  that you love me and you care

and you want to shield me from hurt and pain,

please let me be me,

and let me live my own life on my own terms

let me live out my own dreams

Chorus

3) Or maybe life has been rough for us,

You had no expectations for me,

and somehow felt it helped to tell me I was stupid,

or not good enough or not to expect much of myself or life,

and maybe for a time I believed you.

Now I know where my talents lie,

Now I know that everyone is different

Now I know that it really takes all sorts to make this world go round

I know who I am and where I want to go

I have my dream, my vision of my life for me, and I know

Where I want to go and I have all the talents I need to get me there

Chorus

©Amanda Goldston 2004 All rights reserved.

With love and abundant blessings until we talk again

Amanda Goldston

http://www.GetYourDreamLife.com