Not everyone likes me, but not everyone matters.

Do you spend an extraordinary amount of time taking into consideration what others think of you?

What would happen if you did exactly the opposite?

What would happen if, starting right this minute, you decided it is entirely immaterial what any other person thinks of you and only put your focus on what you think about yourself?

Do you think you would be living a happier life as a result of making that decision?

When we are so dependent upon what others’ opinions of us are, we potentially lose track of how and why our own opinion must reign supreme.

The understanding of how and why we are so empowered to rise up to expectations can be readily offset by our making the choice to empower anyone’s opinion of ourselves above those of our own.

Truly, we are determined to be highly conscious of external opinions, and yet as much as we might desire approval from another party, whether we achieve that approval and are able to sustain that approval over long periods of time is still entirely less mission critical to our lifelong success than whether we, ourselves, are ready, willing and capable of experiencing those perceptions and enabling our own judgment to mitigate disparities between other’s perceptions of us versus those of our own.

One of the single, most free perspectives in life is achieved through the direct understanding of this principle It delivers valuable opportunities for us to mature and prosper by our own metric.

If you find that you were spending too much time adjusting your values and overall demeanor, you must be thoroughly capable of learning that your own self approval need be as critical as might be expected, solely for the purpose of accelerating you to a new track of opportunity.

Happy Sunday!