I AM LOSING CONTROL 2

What Are You Waiting For?

Are you a “human being,” a “human doing,” or a “human having?” Former psychotherapist, Atalanta Beaumont, addressed this question in her blog, What Are You Waiting For?
Many of us work extremely hard at making a living. However, we should not miss out on living our lives to the utmost. The object of this lesson is to help you discover greater purpose and peace in your life.

Lesson Two: What Are You Waiting For?

Read the following three descriptions of how we, as “humans,” choose to exist.
Spend some time thinking about which most applies to you.
Finally, develop a simple plan to work at losing one of your undesirable traits.
Repeat the exercise with other areas of your life as you begin to experience success. However, remember, change takes time.

Which of these three “humans” are you?

1. You are a “human doing.”

You are helpful and generous. You quickly see the needs of other people and are quick to help them.
You are successful in your career. You have a reputation for getting the job done.
You feel burdened by the things you have to do.
You are motivated by the approval of others and want others to notice your accomplishments.
You are frequently stressed or feel anxious. You may occasionally suffer with “burn-out,”

What are you waiting for?

You are waiting until you finish every task “perfectly” to relax and enjoy your life.
You are waiting for recognition from people.

2. You are a “human having.”

You are successful and work hard.
You have acquired beautiful personal items, adequate wealth, or coveted positions.
You expect others to admire the things you own.
You are not satisfied with what you have. You spend a great deal of time thinking about “things” that you want to have.
You feel pressured to have more: i.e., more money, a newer car, a better partner.

What are you waiting for?

You are waiting until you have “enough” to enjoy your life fully.
You may also be waiting for the “perfect” partner to complete your life.

3. You are a Human Being.

You are imperfect in every way.

What are you waiting for? Nothing.

You are not waiting until you have enough or do enough to live to your fullest potential.
You do not define yourself by what other people think of you.
You chase your dreams and not what someone else says you should be doing with your life.
Goals, projects, ideas, and material things are the tools for living-out your purpose.
You are genuine. Your personality is the same with everyone.
You are living each day with gratefulness and internal peace.

Thank you for joining me to complete week two of I AM LOSING CONTROL (IALC), a four-week series of interactive lessons. We recommend working on each activity, along with your daily spiritual care.

Week 1 – Discovering Who
Week 2 – Discovering What
Week 3 – Discovering When
Week 4 – Discovering Where

Click here to share your response to a question, leave a comment, or ask a question.

See you next week for lesson three!

Selma

2 thoughts on “I AM LOSING CONTROL 2”

This article and excercise brought about awareness as I reflected on what type of human I am. I realized I may be a bit of all three but moreso that I am a human being. I feel better about some of my attributes of a human being, I used to measure my self against the human having or doing, after reading this I take pride, and feel that who I am, is ok.

Selma Dean says:

April 30, 2020 at 1:51 PM

Thanks Vashti. I too, found myself a mixture of all three. It’s good to know that being human recognizes that I am a mixture and its ok. God bless.

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