To Thine Own Self

We are under constant pressure to put our faith and our trust in the people and products that surround us.

We are required to allow decisions that will impact our life and wellbeing to be made on our behalf…by someone or something other than ourselves.

We hand over responsibility – all too often without choice – but are ultimately left to deal with the consequence. As individuals we are placed in a position where we have to pick up the pieces resulting from the failure or misjudgment of others.

In the final analysis someone must pay. The end of the line must be found. Something that has a beginning must also find its finish.

But we have a tendency to make life more difficult than it has to be. Consequence can bring with it both guilt and regret.

That’s where a combination of blind faith and lack of self-trust can play a significant part. We can either increase the possibility of disappointment or we can reduce it.

We all have a certain degree of innate intelligence and a lived life offers us experience and direction. It’s what we do with what we have that makes all the difference. We draw not only from what is around us to build the person we are but, most importantly, we draw from what is inside of us.

That means listening to our head and our heart and trusting in our own commonsense.

If we want those around us to know and love us then we first have to know and love ourselves.

That can be a challenge and it is a project that has no end.

It starts with trust and belief in self and builds out from there.