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Careful Not to Lose Yourself
It’s easy to get lost in your struggles — but relatively easy to find yourself and consciously choose how to work with them.
With a few exceptions, nobody has it easy.
Despite outward appearances, just about everyone struggles in one way or another to get from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’ in their life.
These struggles take many different forms. Mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual.
Some of these get combined — but they can be challenging no matter what you are working to do.
How you react to your struggles is on you. There is a choice to be made as to whether you will work on overcoming an obstacle, succumbing to it, or seeking another option. But you have the power to make the choice and the decision as to what that will look like.
You can’t do jack shit about outside influences. Good or bad, you have no control over anyone or anything outside of yourself. Their influence on you, however, is yours to choose.
For example — politics. You can attend protests, support the side you are for, and VOTE — and that’s about it, currently. Ingesting the bitter pills about all the problems with politics will only upset you — but change nothing. That upset interferes with…
