Hello my beautiful souls.
Today I want to speak about our need to be right,
Our need to win at any cost,
Our need to assert ourselves in a way which could hurt other people.
And I speak for myself,
And I know there will be a lot of you out there that you could relate.
So in our quest to be right,
In our quest to get what we think we deserve in that moment,
Because we think we are in a position of power or superiority,
We forget that the person or people we are speaking to or dealing with have a life,
Are doing the best that they can at that moment,
And that regardless of whether you believe that you should get something in that moment,
Remember that the greater thing of importance is that you don't hurt somebody's soul in the process.
And I am learning this because sometimes I find myself being very impatient when people,
You know,
Don't do a good job or they are slack with their work,
They aren't professional.
I don't have any patience for it,
But I am working on it.
I have decided to be kind instead of right,
To be gentle instead of forceful,
To see the person in front of me as a whole,
Rather than just,
You know,
A person who is not a good person.
You know,
A person behind the counter selling me something or a person on the phone who is just not doing a great job.
And instead of getting frustrated and angry,
I am going to actively practice being loving and kind and patient.
I believe we are trained to,
Under certain circumstances,
To think that we are entitled to things.
And so we behave accordingly.
I'm going to change that now.
So just because I am paying for something doesn't give me the right,
Even if they're doing a terrible job,
Even if what I paid for is what I got,
Does not give me the right to assert myself in a way that could hurt the person in front of me.
And so I'm going to actively choose to be loving at that moment,
To try and understand where they're coming from and to maybe impart some wisdom to them or show them some grace,
So that going forward they might get the rest that they need,
Maybe nobody gave them a break,
Maybe nobody helped them.
And so I want to make every opportunity that challenges me to be the highest and best version of myself.
It is a challenge,
It isn't easy,
And I know I'm going to fail at times.
But now that I've set the intention,
I am aware and I will consistently work at it.
And then this will become natural to me and the other thing will not feel right.
So being compassionate and kind and forgiving and gentle will become natural to me and being angry and aggressive and forceful and right and demanding will be unnatural.
And I hope this has helped some of you because it just takes being conscious and asking yourself what is your end goal?
My end goal is peace and I truly desire to be loving under all circumstances,
To be kind under all circumstances.
And my nature or my nurture,
My upbringing has made me a certain way.
But when we decide that we're going to be in control of how we act,
How we behave,
How we are,
Then we transform ourselves and we transform the world.
We transform the world.
