You are the biggest sign of your own perseverance

​There are days I look in the mirror and think, I am never going to make it. The world seems stacked against me. I seem stacked against me. You, man in the mirror, are surely doomed.

But then the mirror reminds me. You have showed up here and said that before, yet here you are.

How often do we show up looking for something in the mirror, some sign or reassurance, forgetting that what we get from the mirror is what we put into it?

If you want the mirror to agree that you are doomed, then tell the mirror you are doomed. But if you want that mirror to be reassurance, reassurance that your mere presence there proves nothing has doomed you yet, tell the mirror precisely that.

You are living, breathing, mirror fogging truth, that in spite of believing circumstances would take you down before, they did not.

We often lament the people who don't show up for us, who don't have our back, who don't offer the kind of reassurance we are looking for from them. But the reality is, we are often asking them do give us something we are terrible at giving ourselves.

We have very little control over who is going to show up for us. We have absolute control over how we show up for ourselves.

Show up to your mirror today. See it as a reminder that no matter what happened yesterday, or the day before, or 5 decades ago, today you are looking back at you from the mirror.

Today, you are the universe's best sign that you are indeed indestructible.

Today, you are worth showing up for. So show up. You in that mirror gets to be the judge of that worth, no one else.

Your mirror is trying to tell you something big is about to happen. Behold the image there, and be always reminded that something big indeed already has.

You are showing up, and man is the world better off because of it!

Behold you. You are worth it.