Why you never feel good enough | Michael J. Kline | TEDxUSFSM

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At some point, we've all felt like we are a fraud, that we're inferior, or that we can't seem to be good enough. Michael J. Kline takes us on the journey he took to discover his "enoughness" and how we can all take action to discover why we don't feel like we're enough and how we can all collectively feel better. Mike finally feels like he is enough. Born into poverty as the 11th of 12 children living in their abusive alcoholic father’s junkyard, he spent the next 60 years chasing his self-worth, which he calls enoughness. He first thought he found it by earning a prestigious scholarship, then as a successful executive, then a six-time successful entrepreneur. Always needing more, he believed that he’d be enough as a Master RIM Facilitator, a Jack Canfield Trainer, a Barrett Values Consultant. He earned a dozen certificates, and even bought into a retreat center in Costa Rica. Mike’s journey from junk to joy involved everything from money to religion to meditation to psychedelics. He discovered that we go through life building the case that we are enough, but you don’t build enoughness, you uncover it. Now he’s on a mission to help others do the same, through private sessions & transformational retreats. He says you can’t get good enough to feel good enough, until you remember you always were. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx