Between now and March 22, I am happy to share “50 Ideas Worth Fighting For.”
If I could only write about one thing it would be this: all meaningful, sustainable change starts from within.
For so many years I blamed my parents, my bosses, my siblings, my friends, my children, and even perfect strangers for my inability to get, to be, to have what I most desperately wanted.
I blamed them because I was not ready to accept responsibility for myself. I was not ready to accept the truth that I was the only one standing in the way of becoming the person I knew I could be, feeling the sense of security, composure and equanimity I knew I could feel.
I blamed them because that was much easier to do than to accept the fact that my old patterns of compensation were no longer enough, no longer capable of supporting my facade of competence and composure.
As many have said, “You are not responsible for what you received as a child but, as an adult you are 100% responsible for fixing it.”
When I finally did, the world opened up to me as it never had before. I found possibilities and experienced freedoms I never knew existed, because I was able to put to rest the old hurts that kept me from becoming myself.
All meaningful and sustainable starts from within.
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