You are the only one who can choose mediocrity for yourself, Dear One.
You are the only one who can choose to settle for less than you want, less than you deserve.
If you want better than that for yourself, you’re going to have to choose better than that for yourself.
Don’t allow yourself to become imprisoned by the choices, decisions and promises that you made yesterday, Dear One.
Your understanding of the world around you is constantly changing and growing. In every moment, the potential exists for you to know something new that you did not know the moment before. This new information is constantly changing your perspective – and this constantly changing perspective is a gift. Don’t throw it away simply because you “adamantly” made a decision about something yesterday.
Today, your new perspective, your current vantage point, might allow you to see something that will make yesterday’s perspective obsolete. Embrace those moments when they happen, Dear One. and allow them to change you, change your mind and change your behavior. It would be a real shame to stand in one place all of your life simply because you told someone that you would.
Don’t let your desire to be right, or loyal, or trustworthy, supersede your desire to live your life to the fullest. Don’t let the promises that you made yesterday stop you from living your life today. The truth is that the people that you made them to have changed as well. Their needs, desires and perspectives are not going to the be same forever either.
Honor yourself and your commitments as they make sense in the moment. Don’t allow yourself to be ruled by a past that is already gone or a future that does not yet exist.
Don’t’ wonder if it’s all going to be okay in the end.
Know that it will be.
Why?
Because it’s true.
And because believing it will feel a whole lot better than not believing it while you are in the process of getting there.
Do you want to know how you can transform even the most complicated situation into a simple one, Dear One? We’ll tell you.
When considering all of the possible ways in which you could choose to respond, choose the simplest one, every time.
That is all there is to it!
The best and only way to create simplicity from complexity, is to choose it.
Never mind what you think anyone else would do if they were in your shoes, Dear One. Never mind what you think they would say, or how you think they would react, or what you think they would feel — Because the truth is that it will never happen. No one else ever could, ever will, be in your shoes.
You are the only one of you that there is, that there ever will be. This is your life. You are meant to experience it any way that you choose. We hope that this knowledge boosts your confidence in your ability to make the right decisions for yourself. Remember, Dear One, you are the only judge on the panel whose opinion counts.
That does not mean that you should not ask others for their help or for their opinions. In fact, we believe that doing so is very often a wise and useful thing for you to do. And we encourage it, whenever you should feel inspired to do so. There is much that you can learn from the perspective, from the experiences of others. There is a great deal of benefit to be gained from seeing the world through someone else’s eyes.
Just don’t forget, that their choices, their experiences, their decisions are just that, theirs. They were right (or wrong) for them. Learn from them, question them, consider them, but when the time comes to choose, to make a decision, your opinion, not theirs, is the only one that matters.
You are the world’s leading expert on you, Dear One.
When you allow yourself to trust yourself, you have very good judgment.
Today, we want to remind you to please remember to use it.