Too many of us live our lives based on the opinions, expectations and ideas of others. These are normally well meaning experts, such as family, friends, peers, people in places of authority etc.
From the time we are infants, we are bombarded with other peoples ideas of about how the world works and how everything should be. We don’t have filters when we are infants and it is only after many years we develop our conscious mind and become aware of our own free will.
By then it is often too late to live our lives the way we wish. Those well meaning folks like parents, teachers and friends have taught us how and where we should work, what we should do for a living, what our relationships should look like, the correct way to behave, where we should live, how we should raise our family etc etc.
This pressure can be very intense, extreme and forceful from those external forces at times. And quite often the pressure comes from within ourselves. Why? Well we have been programmed. Yes our subconscious mind is filled with these “ideas” (other peoples ideas to be more accurate) and these are our current thinking habits.
So when we want to ditch being the Lawyer and rather become a travel photographer and live in India for 6 months, we meet resistance from our peers and loved ones and ourselves. This happens because our new conscious thought patterns are not in harmony with our (and others) existing habitual ways of thinking.
The result is conflict. Conflict with the outside world and within, in the form of fear, worry, doubt and tension.
Be bold and change the paradigm. Live the live YOU WANT, not the life your parents wanted for you. Make that change today and move towards your FREEDOM!
Don’t live YOUR life based
on the expectations and ideas of other people
This is YOUR LIFE.
Live it the way
YOU CHOOSE!
– Kenneth Todd