Ever torn apart your kitchen looking for something that was right there in front of you? Maybe it was your car keys. Maybe the remote. For my son, it was pickles. This small everyday moment revealed something bigger about how we see ourselves, and more importantly, how we sometimes don’t SEE ourselves.
One day, he was on a mission for dill. Pickles. We had a massive jar of them. Think: deli-style, hand-sized pickles in a jar so big it needed its own zip code. I told him, “They’re in the fridge.” He opened the door, looked for maybe two seconds, and insisted, “Nope, we don’t have any!” I walked over, moved a juice bottle, and voilà! Pickles galore!
Sometimes, we do this with our own value. We mistake visibility for worth. If we, or someone else can’t immediately spot our brilliance, we think it must not exist. Someone looks and says, “Nope, nothing of value here,” and we believe them.
Visibility ≠ Worth
Just because someone doesn’t see your worth doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Just because you can’t see it, same.
Life can obscure our gifts, strengths, essence and hide our worth behind distractions, comparisons, or old beliefs. It takes is a shift, a moved bottle to reveal what’s been there all along.
Have you ever missed something valuable in yourself or believed someone who told you it wasn’t there?
Additional Reading:
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
- Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness
- The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
- Leaders Eat Last
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