We are powerless over other people's expectations of us. We cannot control what others want, what they expect, or what they want us to do and be. We can control how we respond to other people's expectations.
During the course of any day, people may make demands on our time, talents, energy, money, and emotions. We do not have to say yes to every request. We do not have to feel guilty if we say no. And we do not have to allow the barrage of demands to control the course of our life.
We do not have to spend our life reacting to others and the course they would prefer we took with our life. We can set boundaries, firm limits on how far we shall go with others. We can trust and listen to ourselves. We can set goals and direction for our life. We can place value on ourselves. We can own our power with people. Buy some time. Think about what you want. Consider how responding to another's needs will affect the course of your life.
We live or own life by not letting other people, their expectations, and their demands control the course of our life. We can let them have their demands and expectations; we can allow them to have their feelings. We can own our power to choose the path that is right of us.
Today, help me own my power by detaching, and peacefully choosing the course of action that is right for me. Help me know I can detach from the expectations and wants of others. Help me stop pleasing other people and start pleasing myself.
Melody Beattie ©
The challenge is to not look to circumstances for the evidence of what's possible, but to look with the eyes of faith to that which we would bring forth. Hold the highest vision today for what you would create.
Mary Manin Morrissey
AA Thought for the Day / We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator. We feel that we are on the Broad Highway, walking hand in hand with the Spirit of the Universe. / c. 2001 AAWS, AA, p. 75.
As a spiritual practice, when we ask for what we need and offer each other what we can, we enter a dance of unavoidable reciprocity. We are doing a two-step exchange of needs and offerings, and the whole village is dancing. If we pay attention, we discover we cannot give without receiving; we cannot receive without giving. When a friend asks, "Can I give you a hug?" I wonder how she will give it to me without being in it with me? Or if someone says, "I need a hug, " does he notice that his request requires my willingness to offer my arms? Asking / offering / giving / receiving is one circular motion. If we don't ask for what we need, if we don't offer what we can, we block the dance.
Christina Baldwin
Life is organic. All the pieces fit together with no one part being any more spiritual than any other. Our inner life feeds the outer, and the outer life nourishes the inner. This symbiotic relationship permeates all of life and, until we tap in to that rhythm, our life remains disjointed. No one can tell us when to stay quiet and wait for insight, or when to move out into the world with a sense of purpose and discipline. At each moment, only we can decide how to become more, and what we need to do to get there.
Chandra Alexander
"We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other. To meet, to love, to share. It is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parentheses in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other, and this moment will have been worthwhile."
Deepak Chopra
Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.
Shakti Gawain
"The assistance you need will be provided by the universe as soon as your convert your readiness to willingness."
Wayne W. Dyer
You and I might be in heaven right now and not even know it because we are paying attention to hell.
Alan Cohen
During the course of any day, people may make demands on our time, talents, energy, money, and emotions. We do not have to say yes to every request. We do not have to feel guilty if we say no. And we do not have to allow the barrage of demands to control the course of our life.
We do not have to spend our life reacting to others and the course they would prefer we took with our life. We can set boundaries, firm limits on how far we shall go with others. We can trust and listen to ourselves. We can set goals and direction for our life. We can place value on ourselves. We can own our power with people. Buy some time. Think about what you want. Consider how responding to another's needs will affect the course of your life.
We live or own life by not letting other people, their expectations, and their demands control the course of our life. We can let them have their demands and expectations; we can allow them to have their feelings. We can own our power to choose the path that is right of us.
Today, help me own my power by detaching, and peacefully choosing the course of action that is right for me. Help me know I can detach from the expectations and wants of others. Help me stop pleasing other people and start pleasing myself.
Melody Beattie ©
The challenge is to not look to circumstances for the evidence of what's possible, but to look with the eyes of faith to that which we would bring forth. Hold the highest vision today for what you would create.
Mary Manin Morrissey
AA Thought for the Day / We begin to feel the nearness of our Creator. We feel that we are on the Broad Highway, walking hand in hand with the Spirit of the Universe. / c. 2001 AAWS, AA, p. 75.
As a spiritual practice, when we ask for what we need and offer each other what we can, we enter a dance of unavoidable reciprocity. We are doing a two-step exchange of needs and offerings, and the whole village is dancing. If we pay attention, we discover we cannot give without receiving; we cannot receive without giving. When a friend asks, "Can I give you a hug?" I wonder how she will give it to me without being in it with me? Or if someone says, "I need a hug, " does he notice that his request requires my willingness to offer my arms? Asking / offering / giving / receiving is one circular motion. If we don't ask for what we need, if we don't offer what we can, we block the dance.
Christina Baldwin
Life is organic. All the pieces fit together with no one part being any more spiritual than any other. Our inner life feeds the outer, and the outer life nourishes the inner. This symbiotic relationship permeates all of life and, until we tap in to that rhythm, our life remains disjointed. No one can tell us when to stay quiet and wait for insight, or when to move out into the world with a sense of purpose and discipline. At each moment, only we can decide how to become more, and what we need to do to get there.
Chandra Alexander
"We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other. To meet, to love, to share. It is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parentheses in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other, and this moment will have been worthwhile."
Deepak Chopra
Our primary relationship is really with ourselves. Our relationships with other people constantly reflect exactly where we are in the process.
Shakti Gawain
"The assistance you need will be provided by the universe as soon as your convert your readiness to willingness."
Wayne W. Dyer
You and I might be in heaven right now and not even know it because we are paying attention to hell.
Alan Cohen
1 comment:
Wow! This was so me yesterday! I had the one day off, so much to do. I returned phone calls later in the evening - everyone was busy.. or not answering. So then when people did call back I ignored the phone because I had so much more to do and could not stop. I decided not to be guilty, life is what it is. Sometimes are timing simply does not match up.
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