REFUSE CAPTIVITY

TODAY'S QUOTE:
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. - Mark Caine

This is such a brutal lesson. But if we don't struggle for freedom we become a hostage by default. All too often it's fear of the unknown that holds us firm in a place or situation that is harmful to us in one fashion or another. At times it's uncertainty of what we truly want that keeps us trapped. When that occurs we're much better served by simply flipping the script to examine what we don't want. Folks mostly always have an understanding of that when they may be confused about everything else. That's a good place to begin taking control of both our internal and external environments.

This lesson takes bravery we too often imagine we don't possess. But if the fear is ignored, the final reward will erase any doubt we ever had about breaking free. We each have the perfect right to be whomever we are without guilt. We needn't rip pieces of our heart out to fill in the empty places inside someone else. That never works, no matter our intentions.When you break yourself down to build someone else up then both foundations are just a puff of wind away from total collapse.

Be brave without malice. Be forgiving without blame. Be gentle without weakness. Be firm without spite. Be yourself without apology. Think about it... let it ride... then decide!!!