Identity

I heard a quote this morning by Dennis Simsek, “Every moment of anxiety is an opportunity to develop a new identity.”  If you haven’t heard of him and struggle with anxiety I highly recommend you follow him.  He is known as, “The Anxiety Guy” on Facebook.

When I heard this quote it resonated deeply with me.  It brought to the forefront of my mind how hard I’ve been working for the past year or so to become more than anxiety.  It reminded me of how intricately fused our “who” and our “do” can become.  For sometime now I’ve been taking my moments of struggle and hypersensitivity and confronting them face to face.  Something I had not been equipped to do until recently.  So, as this writing unfolds it falls from the fingertips of someone who is actively recovering and making progress from debilitating anxiety.  In an attempt to encourage you to today I promise I won’t go all, “new convert” on you.  My religious friends will understand this funny.

If you think about it, our moments of struggle are the most rife with opportunity for becoming better.  Character is something that is built over time.  Fortitude isn’t a genetic disposition.  It is a quality that is forged through fire. The challenges of life are the only avenues to “get rich quick” when it comes to personal development.  We can literally take our anxious moments and in the moment decide who we are.  I want to see myself and know myself as a person of quiet strength.  I also want others to know me that way.  In my anxious moments I choose to whether to cave or be brave.  Bravery is something that is required of me daily for reasons I won’t go into now.

Through every moment of anxiety the choice to deal with it face to face and acknowledge how “ok” I am and how “ok” I will be when the panic passes is the fastest course for me to solidify my skill, my confidence, my integrity of fortitude.

I want to encourage you today.  If you are an anxiety sufferer, if you know the depths of depression, inside of you is a warrior rising.  You haven’t made it this far because you’re weak.  You have untapped, unacknowledged potential on the inside of you.  I challenge you to take inventory of your strengths and then focus on honing them.  Because, what you focus on you make room for and what you focus on will become enlarged.  Capitalize on your challenges today.  Capitalize on your moments of anxiety and be intentional about understanding who you want to be.  It’s time to level up.  Join me?

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