Your Feet

If you ever find yourself feeling put upon by what other people seem to expect of you, take a moment to do this important action.

LOOK DOWN AT YOUR FEET.

Those two body parts are controlled by one person, and one person only.  You and I are %100 responsible for what those feet are doing now, and will be doing in ten minutes, and even what they were doing two years ago when you were suffering in a bad relationship. Your feet.  Nobody controls them but you.   But the key is RIGHT NOW. What are you doing with them, and what are they doing with you?  This moment is the only one that you can really affect, really change, really make a different choice. This moment, right here.

Like Being Born

After we enter the world from inside our mother, we don't spend time worrying about "what if I should have stayed in there? I've never done this before, what if I can't do it?", and thank goodness!.  We just start breathing, and go from there. We learn, we grow, we survive, and I would like to see all of us take the next step above surviving, and THRIVE! 
 

Who's the Boss of You?

After working with young people for 20 years, inside the classroom and out, I have learned a basic human truth.

We all have the innate drive to 'captain our ship' (I borrowed that from a poem and a recent interview I watched on bulletproof.com). Whether or not we confess to it, or even realize it ourselves, we humans have an internal mantra:

Who is the ONLY person that is going to tell me to JUMP? ME

And how high am I going to jump? EXACTLY AS HIGH AS I WANT!

And who is going to stop me? NOBODY!!

In my humble opinion, this is the crux of all conflict. Period. More on this later, as it unfolds in my brain.

Thanks for reading.  :)