Is it OK to be Great?

Unique Perspectives: Is it OK to be Great?

By Kim Stevens

Is it ok to be great?

It’s not just okay… It’s downright Godly.

At our coaching workshop on Wednesday, our consultant put each of us on the spot with this question: What’s your go-to thing?

That one saying, thought, idea, vision or song that steadies you in rough times and helps you find your way back on track.

I just loved this question! And even more, I loved hearing what my colleagues shared. No time to overthink, just the raw truth of what really fuels us.

When it came to me, I shared a piece that has inspired me since the very first time I read it. It still hangs in my office for all to see:

From Marianne Williamson:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,

We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,

Our presence automatically liberates others.

That passage has always been my reminder: your light isn’t for you alone and that shining it is an act of service.

And then there’s this passage from Conversations with God, Book 3, which drives the point home:

God speaking to Neale Donald Walsch:

God: “Why do you insist on putting yourself down like that? You all do it! Every one of you! You deny your own greatness as you deny the existence of Me in you.”

Neale: “Not me! I have never done that!”

God: “What?”

Neale: “Well, not recently…”

God: “I tell you, before the cock crows, you will deny Me three times.

Every thought of your Self as smaller than you really are is a denial of Me. Every word about your Self that puts you down is a denial of Me. Every action that plays out ‘not-good-enough’ or lack or insufficiency of any kind is a denial indeed.

Not just in thought, not just in word, but in deed.”

Neale: “I really…”

God: “Do not allow your life to represent anything but the grandest version of the greatest vision you ever had about Who You Are.”

Here’s the truth: Greatness isn’t arrogance. It’s divine. And when you let yourself be fully who you are, the best of who you are. You don’t just lift yourself…

You become a mirror that reflects possibility back to everyone around you.