We place labels on things – situations, relationships, roles – that state ‘this is this therefore this is not that.’
But sometimes this is both this and that.
Sometimes our labels don’t serve us.
Sometimes they limit us and our experience.
Sometimes labels reduce potential.
What labels could you do with removing?
What labels are no longer serving you?
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.