I’ve recently been thinking about how as humans we often spend a lifetime thinking we’re bad at something solely because we didn’t show signs of being brilliant at it as a child… which honestly is soooo absurd. Anyone can be good at anything at anytime. It just takes practice!
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People tend to seriously believe they’re bad at art or sports or music or academics & that they just don’t have the talent solely bc they weren’t just naturally good at it by age 7.
Every fantastic artist started out drawing terrible pencil stick figures; no one is born painting masterpieces. The artists all practiced. They developed their talent, they trained themselves, they stuck with it, and then got really good.
I can’t tell you how many times in my life I’ve had people say “I wish I could draw like you” or “I wish I had your artistic talent.” And I’ve been like well, yes you can, too … you just need to practice! I spent my entire childhood and teenage years drawing on my own for fun. I’d reference other cartoons and see how they did it and try to figure out how I could do it, too. I took many art classes as a child, I took advanced art classes in all different mediums as a teenager, and I literally went to art school for college. If you had all the development I did, you would be a great artist, too!
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No one is born knowing how to play guitar - they learn! Even young Taylor Swift had to take songwriting lessons and truly practice her craft.
Athletes get better & stronger & faster the more they train. Psychics get more intuitive the more they meditate, connect, and practice. People get better at academics and trivia the more they seek knowledge and study and learn.
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It’s so bizarre to me that mass amounts of people just settle in the belief they’re not good at something or don’t have the talent for it because they tried it once or twice as a kid and weren’t great.
The truth is, kids aren’t great at a lot of things, they don’t have the proper development yet! You didn’t have the height or hand-eye coordination to drive a car as a kid, yet you do just fine as an adult. So why are you judging your younger self for not being great at things when your adult self very well could be amazing at it given the chance?
I know I previously fell into that trap as well with singing! I couldn’t naturally belt out tunes as a child and people told me I wasn’t a great singer when I did try. So I just adapted the belief within me: “I’m a bad singer” and just accepted that it wasn’t my thing. But I realize now that I was literally only a child, maybe like six or seven, when I decided I was a bad singer. If I would’ve taken singing lessons, worked with a vocal coach, and believed I had the possibility to become a good singer - I probably would be a good singer by now!
I think one of the biggest things, too, is we feel that it’s always too late to try.
I remember even as a teenager thinking figure skating looked so cool. (I mainly did love their outfits let’s be honest!) and I loved ice skating. I took normal ice skating lessons as a child just to learn and I was a great regular skater, but I could never do all the amazing twists and jumps that figure skaters do. But, I remember my teenage self, maybe like 13-14, thinking it was too late for me to try. I was already too old, everyone who did it had already been doing it for ten years. (And that’s actually how I was with swimming! I started swimming at an early age, was naturally good, was put into lessons and swim team, so by the time I was 14 I had already been swimming for 11 years and was one of the best on my varsity team!)
Why is it in society we drill into each other that if we didn’t start in pre-school or early elementary school, then we’ve missed our shot? Why was I a teenager thinking I was too old to start something new? What is society’s obsession with natural talent early on as opposed to allowing yourself time to grow, to find what interests you, and pick it up at anytime knowing that you can be awesome at it?
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Seriously, you can be great at anything with enough dedication & practice! (Yes, including things like energy work + manifestation😉)
I think this sentiment echoes into careers as well. We think by the time we’re in our late twenties or thirties or forties or beyond if we’re not still into the career we chose as a TEENAGER, then it’s already too late to change because we’ve invested all this time. But the truth is, it’s never too late - for anything. We’re multifaceted beings. We grow and change - our interests grow and change. If you selected a career to go to college for when you were seventeen, chances are you may not exactly still love it decades later. And that should be okay! We should be allowed to start over, to pursue multiple interests, to change at anytime because isn’t that what life is all about? Aren’t we here to explore? To push our soul to learn and grow and try new things?
So today, I ask you to think about something you’ve been telling yourself you’re bad at (& maybe wish you were good at) or something you think it’s too late for & ask yourself: “When did I decide this?” “What made me decide this?” “Who made me decide this?”
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And when you’ve analyzed that, recognize it was all just a limiting belief! So let that belief go & realize you’re not bad at it - you just were never given a proper chance!
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& if it’s something (or if there’s anything) you do still wish to be good at, know it’s never too late & you CAN do it! With practice, dedication, & belief in yourself, you truly can become a master of anything. Affirm it. Believe it. Know it!
