What mark have I left in your life?

I have been standing on my soap box for years encouraging bravery and supporting countless people as they take the first step into the unknown. Of late, a little voice inside of me has been shouting the same things I have said to my students, be it whether I was teaching business economics, massage, numerology, archetypes or life achievement.

Sometimes, however, no matter how encouraging the voices in my head are, they remain unbelievable. We all do it - stare in the mirror and say a positive affirmation that lasts no longer than a couple of hours if we are lucky. I beleive that sometimes the last person you should listen to about your own worth and value is yourself and so I'm about to ask a great favour of the special people who I have had the honour of sharing my knowledege with over the span of 15 years.

Inspire me ...
Share with me the mark I left in your life so that I can pack my backpack of affirmations moulded around the mirror you hold up to me and make my mark in this world.

Most of the time I have rattled cages, ruffled feathers and upset the perfectly balanced apples in your cart, but we both know that the truth is sometimes not what we want to hear ... it is however what we need to hear .. and I am sure I have been that voice for many of you.

Good or bad ... I would be so grateful if you would share with me ... remembering that you can do this anonymously on the blog!

Should you allow other people to influence your esteem?

If I had to listen my own perception of some of my qualities, I doubt I'd even be writing this blog and I certainly wouldn't feel as talented, gifted and useful as a writer and facilitator. On a more personal level, I would never recognise my beauty and ability to love and nurture.
So, is this a healthy or unhealthy way of improving our ever shifting level of esteem?

When is another person's opinion of you a gift and when is it soul destroying ... how do you know the difference? More importantly ... when is your own opinion of you the most damaging voice you should listen to?

Tell me where you are lacking in esteem or pose a situation where you are trying to determine who is seeing the real you.

Contemplate this: We are told to discover our own truth, but sometimes it's far too tarnished by our own lies.