“We need to feel we are worthy of a good life in order to make a better decision,” Aleksandra Cummings.  Aleks shared this during a training she gave us last week.  We all struggle with worth at some point.  We have all settled for less than we deserve and we have all questioned what we deserve.  When we design our lives, we need to remember that there are no limits, and that includes no limits to our worth.  Once we can wrap our heads around the concept of infinite creation, we can work on our concept of self-worth.  Worth is a subjective term.  We all have different ideas of what things are worth.  We have different ideas of what we are worth.  There is no way to truly value a human being.  Society tries to downplay or even ignore inherent worth, suggesting we need something about us to determine that value.  We have inherent worth and we have the ability to use our gifts and talents (and the ability  to develop those gifts and talents) to bring unlimited value to other people.  Based on that definition, I’m not sure we can or even need to define what a person is worth, or frankly even spend time thinking about it.  We need to spend more time appreciating each other.  The more we live in appreciation, the more opportunities we see.  And that is how we make better decisions. 

I struggle with the concept of “Deserving.”  I’ve been one of those people who believed that if something exists, we all have the potential to get it. I operated under the belief that the effort got you the result.   I never took into account the fact that there are certain circumstances that are skewed against people, I simply believed that if someone wanted something they just needed to work for it and they would get whatever they desired.  Then I saw and experienced the disparity in the world.  The results I was promised for the work I did never came through.  The life I was promised for the things I sacrificed never showed up.  Was part of that lack of clarity on my part?  Was it because some of those goals weren’t really mine at the deepest level?  Yes.  But the truth is that this system tells us we can have everything but it doesn’t tell us who it is designed for.  It doesn’t tell us who the system favors.  It doesn’t tell us the sacrifices and work necessary to get it—or that sometimes sacrificing those things still won’t get us there, even if we give up who we are.  It doesn’t tell us we need to give up identity to receive and even at the cost of ourselves, the payout may not come.  It’s clever because it bases the idea of worth on what a person does and makes them responsible for the “failure” or lack of results. If we didn’t get it, the effort we put in wasn’t good enough when the reality is there is some Oz figure behind the curtain granting wishes and access based on how he feels that day. 

The truth is we all deserve the best this life can offer.  We all deserve to achieve our goals and dreams.  We are all worthy of what we want.  Some desires are universal but we are meant to be the architects and alchemists in our lives, not copies of someone else’s dream.  It’s just convenient if we forget that and it’s easy to ostracize those who don’t fit that definition and blame them.  We can’t let opinions and interpretations from others, what others tell us we are worth define that for us.  We are infinite beings and we need to remember that we are worth anything that comes to mind.  If we have the idea we are worthy of it, we are meant to have it, we are meant to bring it forth into our lives and into the universe.  All of our work, while it may be focused on the self, is designed to create abundance for us that we share with others.  We are meant to share our skills and information and create a world without limits or hierarchy or rules for accessing resources and information that is readily available for all.  If someone tries to block us, that is an action of ego.  When we block ourselves, that is self-doubt.  We may have no control over the former, but we can certainly work on the latter and create an environment where we aren’t waiting for someone to give us access.  Believe, my friends, and more than believing, feel in our core the weight of our worth and the energy of our being.  Bring it out and let that light, the joy of an idea coming to life radiate into the universe.  That feeling wins over anything.