And You're The Only One

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Published by Rachelle Disbennett-Lee
Friday, July 26, 2002
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One of my favorite animated characters is Tigger in "Winnie the Pooh." Tigger sings a little song that goes something like, "Tiggers are bouncey and pouncey and the most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one."

Well that song could be sung by any of us. We are all the only one the only one of us. I know it is almost cliché to say you are unique and different and there is no one else like you and, however corny that sounds, it is true.

The problem is that different isn't always seen as better. Most of us spend our lives trying to be different just like everyone else. We want to stand out and at the same time fit in. We want to be unique but not in a usual way. Get over it. You are you and there is nothing you can do about it and the more you resist it the more miserable you will be. I tried for years to fit in and be like everyone else. I never managed it and it felt horrible the entire time I was trying to be someone I wasn't. Once I gave up trying to be someone else, I found life became so much easier and a ton more fun.

Coaching

Can you sing the Tigger song and mean it? Can you say with your whole heart and soul that the most wonderful thing about you is that you are the only one? Tigger has it down to an art. He loves to be Tigger. Once we accept who we are and being who we are, life gets so much easier.

The easiest job we have to do is just to be ourselves. And the hardest thing we have to do is just to be ourselves. It takes a lifetime to perfect it and some people never get close. Don't let your life pass you by without being the wonderful you that you came here to be.

What is the most wonderful thing about being you?

Daily Success Formula

The only one = You

Quotes

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." Alan Alda

"Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." Norman Vincent Peale

"Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself." Ralph Waldo Trine

"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority." Tom Hopkins