Month: February 2024 (Page 3 of 3)

I intend to be a person who is looking for growth and the ability to evolve instead of looking to be offended.

Believe me, there are plenty of ways to be offended throughout the day if we’re searching for them. The best version of ourselves is not this type.

It’s a waste of time and energy and only captures our attention to frivolous and empty bemusements from the matters that, well . . . matter the most.

Our vulnerability to be offended is a crack in the armor of our self-reliance, self-worth and our ability to keep our mental house in order. It’s a flaw of character and must be addressed in order to take full responsibility of who we are.

Otherwise, we are disillusioned into believing that others have the power to effect us with their actions.

Ultimately, it’s our choice to be offended. So, let’s not be instead.

No doubt, we all need to run wild, to break free and to cut loose. To push the boundaries with reckless abandon.

Even the best of us. The tightly wound. The professional. The dudly-do-rights and the conservatives.

How can we discover more about ourselves by always staying in the middle of the road? By always playing it safe? At some point we have to go off-road and explore the unknown.

Why? Because we can. We’ll find our way home.

And when you do, we’ll know more about who we are.

Be safe and explore!

Whoever thinks they’ve gone alone or are doing what they doing today because of themselves and/or have a belief that they will go it alone in the future to attain their goals and capture their success is delusional.

We cannot deny our personal efforts and work ethic, but anyone on this earth who has accomplished something of worth has done it only because we all are standing on the shoulders of those who came before us.

Today is no different. Family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances and yes, even strangers have come to our aid at one point in time to pull us up from our bootstraps.

Whether it’s the roads we travel to get to our meetings, to the pen and paper we use once we arrive or the plane we take to tropical islands for our vacations. We could not in any way benefit from where we are today without the tireless work of those who came before us.

Maybe the next time we’re out there in that great big world, we can remind ourselves of that. Maybe – just maybe it might inspire us to help someone else get to where they want to go.

What a gift.