It’s important to care about others, but too much worry over their opinions of you can stifle your creativity and weaken authenticity. Little deters you from pursuing your dreams and expressing your uniqueness like worrying about how others perceive you. Drawing inside the lines is comfortable and safe, but it’s usually unsatisfying. If you’re afflicted with over-concern for what others think of you, try everyday to do one thing you really want to, even if you think it will provoke judgment. Would you rather be safe and bored or skip enthusiastically to the beat of…
Your own drum?
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Jarl and Steve
absolutely beautiful insight…clearly magical reading!
Good Morning,
It is always a delight to open my email and find your positive message to start my day. I find that your message so often fits the particular situation I am in or one I later find myself in. Other times, they are just feel good starts to my day.
Yes, Jarl, I am still in Mobile and am happy here – well, I could pass up the humidity, but the people are great.
So good to hear from you Janet. And so happy we’re still in touch via our dailies. Thank you for reading them. I trust your son and grandchild(ren) are good! Are you still quilting?
These posts are most provocative and welcome to me. A couple times I have misjudged a situation and tried to share one of them with someone not ready, which of course produces the temper tantrum I wanted to transcend!
I still use your course much the same way, as part of my daily meditation.
Love, Larry
That’s hilarious Larry! We don’t want to provoke temper tantrums! Egos will do that! Let me know if you get my responses from this page, ok?