Do you ever not do something you want to for fear of being judged?
Most of us do.
But what is judgement?
Judgement is actually our own perception that others are looking negatively upon us.
It’s not what others actually think.
What others think has no power over us.
Our own perception is the only thing that has power over us.
Which means judgement is a self-imposed limitation.
Which means we don’t need to live with it.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.