Whose Permission Do You Need to Live Your Life How You Choose?

The answer is yours — and yours alone.

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You will receive an awful lot of advice and help both useful and not.

We all have people in our lives who feel they have carte blanche regarding advising and giving permission for us to live our lives a certain way. Some are at a completely surreal level, so remote and removed from our lives that, truly, they have only as much power as we give to them.

A perfect example, and I mean this with no offense or disrespect, is God. It does not matter if you view God from a religious standpoint of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, or any other mono-theistic practice. Some will argue you need his/her/its permission to do pretty much anything you might choose. Without God’s blessing, some might argue, you have nothing.

Don’t even get me started on how some religious leaders will use some form of permission from God to oppress, be intolerant, deny science, or whatever meets their agenda.

At the next level, you get leaders in government, religion, and business who love to tell us what we can and cannot do. Sometimes they use the law to do this; other times they use tradition or obscure rulers. Many workplaces have specific regulations about what we can and cannot wear, some of which are…