everyone has mentors and people they admire. it could be a family member or colleague or celebrity. for me, im inspired by yoga instructors and princess kate. from the moment she came into the public eye i was drawn to her. she is absolutly beautiful, she has a lot to deal with and a lot of judgement coming her way, and she carries herself so well. so graceful.
i want to be like that. i want to smile at every moment with grace and carry myself with integrity.
so with that, i have to confess that i hold myself to a bar that i should be like her. so if i do not act like her – if i drink too much, if im late, if my outfit is not perfect (which it never is), if i overreact or get over emotional – i add an extra beat up session of how i didnt follow along the lines of “what would princess kate do.”
the lesson i learn from this is that if i just acted myself, and trusted myself, and noticed all of the qualities i already have that are like kate, and embraced the qualities i liked about her that i may not have- i would be starting from a place of confidence acknowledging my own goodness, instead of holding myself to an unrealistic bar of whats good and whats not good. from embracing, not fighting, myself, i am more willing and able to open up and make tweaks to my personality and the way i “deal” with the world.
