Give yourself permission. That’s more than enough authority.

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Hence the common saying ‘you can’t give what you don’t have’. In thinking about this concept, I have been asking myself: Who am I? Because then this is the key to understanding what my space is in the universe.

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I’m doing new stuff with new people and charting new territory. However, this is no excuse for slacking on the things I committed to doing beforehand. Which brings me to the lessons I’ve picked up during the past few months:

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1) The secret is to create an environment around myself that challenges me to improve on a daily basis. Environment means places, things, media and most importantly people. Who are the people I have chosen to influence me and what are they influencing me to do/ think?

I think this is the single most important factor for short and long-term happiness in life. The people around me (and you) literally have a direct impact on my thoughts, actions and on what happens around me (they are also thinking, acting and producing results which I either use or am affected by).
2) I discovered that writing is my channel. When I write, my spirit finds new space to absorb more because it has emptied itself. Another secret to my happiness is that I must write often and honestly. Otherwise I will die on the inside.
3) When I speak, movement happens. The projects that have lingered on as ideas in my mind only started to move once I spoke about them (to fertile minds of course). After it leaves the mind through speaking or acting on it, the idea starts to gain its own momentum and requires less effort to keep it moving. In fact, it keeps you moving instead.
What’s your channel of expression? What is it that you feel if you didnt do you might as well not have lived? (I know that sounds dramatic, because it is).

I have taken a different approach; choosing to see things as they are in the present, and matching my needs and talents to them. I am the sort of person who has multiple interests and abilities, so my career can involve diverse parts which make up the whole. I can move from one project or field to another, and develop the different parts of myself.  So I have left the box of looking for one perfect path. I will work on many different things as my intuition and good sense call for it.

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She said that a person cannot make a decision in life based on whatever advice someone else gives them unless they themselves see the point that their advisor is trying to make. She used the example of the girl who is in love with the ‘wrong guy’. Despite the advice of all her friends, she will not leave him until the veil over her eyes is lifted amd she sees for herself what they are trying to tell her.

So as you go about living and discovering, allow yourself room to see for yourself what you need to see and know for sure, before you regurgitate beliefs just because someone else said they are true. This is not to disregard what we hear from others that is true, but it is only to say that as individuals we would do better to respect our own process of learning and discovery too. Don’t believe what I’m saying either before you try it for yorself and prove/ disprove it

In that case, shouldn’t your energy then be directed towards playing your unique role on the planet exceptionally well? If you don’t get the job done that only you can do, no one else is going to do it. Your space will remain empty.

Your job is to find out what this unique space is and then occupy it well. Not to look for someone else’s space or to occupy a space which somebody else has defined for you.

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