Chaos?
Confusion?
Resentment?
We’ve all felt them, yet you and I know how damaging they are.
I confess I’ve been out of action for a while and, in my usual style, I’ve felt very guilty about it. Guilt plagues my mind. It’s actually a great thing to be setting to work on in the final weeks of 2024.
You, at some point, have to realise it’s your life if you’re going to take charge of it.
It’s something I’ve found tremendously difficult to put myself first in anything and I credit deciding to leave London and return to my Up North home village as perhaps the first thing I’ve done for myself, despite the objections.
If you do anything for yourself, it’s likely to rouse the whole spectrum of opinions and feelings in others and the best thing to do is to suck it up, accept that you’re never going to please anyone, any of the time and start making self-determined decisions for yourself.
And I’m not talking about scraping the skin off anyone’s nose deliberately.
We talk about ‘on purpose’ with the negative implication of intentional malice but what about ‘on purpose’ as a tool for liberation? A tool for empowerment and making things simpler? Give that a good ponder my friend. This isn’t a dress rehearsal, this is it.
Seeing yourself, understanding yourself and building yourself are opportunities you can invest in over and over and over again and they have nothing but upside.
Will everyone support you? Of course not but here’s the real question….
Will YOU support you?