I was obsessed with figuring out how I could obtain enough status to finally feel good enough and like who I was as a person.

The problem was that this logic doesn’t work on multiple levels.

Lets look at that idea to “do something”.

Linguistically, it is a strange concept – you do verbs (jump, run, build, etc.) you don’t do things.

So what we really mean when we say “do something” we are talking about turning ourselves into an object of sorts, that does… stuff.

The idea I had was that I needed to turn myself into some sort of important object, that helped people, made money, and garnered a lot of praise and attention in order to be someone.

The issue is that personhood cannot be derived from objecthood.

No matter how useful, skilled, or popular of a “thing” you become (YouTuber, Celebrity, Business Hotshot, Bodybuilder etc.) you can never find yourself as a person in it.

Instead, I’ve found it better to take things in the opposite direction.

I needed to recognize that I was ALREADY SOMEONE…

I was already a person with inherent dignity, value, and worthiness of sacrifice and respect.

It was only once I really understood this that I could play the role of “some thing” (coach, content creator, business owner) without all my “person bits” (ego, mindset, emotions) get in the way.

When you are secure in who you are, you can play at being whatever THING you want from a place of confidence and peace.

You are much more than whatever it is that you do, and when you recognize that, the doing becomes easy.

UYAP!

Mark Queppet