The More We Are Focused

Today I Will Practice Healthy Giving, Understanding That Caretaking And Compulsive Giving Don't Work. I Choose What I Want To Give, To Whom, When, And How Much. It Takes Time To Learn How To Give In Healthy Ways. It Takes Time To Learn To Receive. Balance Will Come.

We Learn The Magical Lesson That Making The Most Of What We Have Turns It Into More.

We Call It Keeping Up With The Joneses. They Buy A Boat And We Buy A Bigger One. They Get A New Tv And We Get A Big Screen. They Start A Business And We Start Planning Our Articles Of Incorporation And The First Stock Release. And While We're So Busy Keeping Up, We Ignore Our Soul, The Inner Voice, That's Telling Us That It Really Wants To Teach Children To Read. While It Helps To Identify With Each Other, We're Not The Same. So Why Compare Ourselves On The Basis Of Material Things? Are You Walking A Path With Heart In Your Own Life, Regardless Of What Others Have?

Letting Go Of Our Ideas About How Life Should Go Is A Choice That Sets Life's Magic Free.

Much Of The Time, The Things We Feel Guilty About Are Not Our Issues. Another Person Behaves Inappropriately Or In Some Way Violates Our Boundaries. We Challenge The Behavior, And The Person Gets Angry And Defensive. Then We Feel Guilty.