ONE QUESTION

What is more important, who you’re becoming or what you achieve? How do you know?

ONE THING TO PONDER

We lack depth and self worth, so we focus on productivity to validate ourselves. 

ONE PERSPECTIVE

All blame and no responsibility leaves for a world full of victims. 

When we refuse to take responsibility for our path, we don't get freedom. We get a different kind of prison.

We’re mislabeling our challenges. 

The way many of us face our challenges is to begin with blame, to begin with pointing the finger.

Here's where I want to be honest, because you all deserve that more than you deserve fake comfort….you might actually be right.

But blaming solves nothing beside making ourselves feel better while doing nothing to change the situation. 

We’re left waiting for circumstances to change. 

We're left hoping other people will change so we can finally feel okay.

And all of that has one thing in common, our righteousness keeps us stuck and unhappy. 

On Being Right

There's an epidemic of righteousness right now. 

Everyone's got a list of what's broken…the system, the economy, the people who think differently than we do. 

And every item on that list has something in common: It keeps us stuck.

I’ll just say this…you’re right. I’m no longer interested in convincing you otherwise. 

If you think elephants can fly….go with it. You’re right. I’m moving on. 

And I believe we all can move on, because the reality is that most of the stuff people want to be ‘right’ about just doesn’t matter.  

The need to be right is rarely about truth. It’s far more about our fear. 

Our conviction around having to be right is more about our insecurities than it is about needing to be right. 

If we believe we’re right and need others to agree with us, then maybe our belief isn’t as solid as we thought. 

It doesn’t matter what is happening outside of us. 

What matters is what is going on inside of us and what we are doing to live up to our potential while in alignment with our values. 

Yes, the world is messy. It always has been. It probably always will be. 

And if our strategy for ‘fixing’ it is to tear everyone else down until they think like us, we're not headed toward healing. 

We're headed somewhere much darker.

The Path Forward

We all have messy rooms. First order, take an inventory of our messy room and start owning things we actually have control over…
- What we choose to think
- What we choose to do
- The accountability we choose to welcome

We can spend the rest of our lives bitching and complaining about everything that is wrong, how people have wronged us, and suggesting that everyone else needs to change to conform to our beliefs and values.

Or, we can walk into our room, pick up our mess, and start becoming someone whose life reflects our values instead of our wounds.

The first is how we create division between us in perpetuity. 

The second is how we make the world better. 

Choose wisely. 

Onward and upward!

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