Many of our nation’s business complexes and schools are presently employing security measures to ensure safer environments. Metal detectors, surveillance cameras and security gates are becoming the norm, rather than the exception. While they are certainly effective deterrents to danger, they lack the ability to eliminate another rampant threat: the belief that a person is not good enough.

This belief is one of the greatest roadblocks to our happiness and success.

Believing we are not good enough stems from feeling inadequate, incapable, unworthy, or stupid. As these feelings are accumulated, they form the belief that we are not enough. We then fill in the “I’m not _____ enough” blank in a variety of way: not ‘tall’ enough, not ‘smart’ enough, not ‘thin’ enough, not ‘rich’ enough, not ‘pretty enough’. When we believe we are not enough, our chance for happiness and success is greatly diminished. In fact, it can even stop us from trying.