Unshackle Yourself. YOU've Got To Be YOU!

Unshackle Yourself.  YOU've Got To Be YOU!

Your parents want you to be a monk OR a priest.  OR your spouse/partner wants you take that 'path'.  Your best friend thinks you should take a pivot.  Your workmates believe that you got to low-key.  Your competitors want you to step off from the gas to give them a 'chance to shine'.  WHERE do you go then? Unshackle Yourself.  YOU've Got To Be YOU!  NO one else can tell you, direct you or throw military-like instructions WHERE you got to toe the line📗📙📘

This reminds me of Bill Gove, touted around the world as the 'FATHER OF PROFESSIONAL SPEAKING'.  BUT I WON'T spend time to banner his credentials though.  Instead, I did grab his poster which screams:  IF I WANT TO BE FREE, I'VE GOT TO BE ME.  NOT THE ME I THINK YOU THINK I SHOULD BE.  NOT THE ME I THINK MY WIFE THINGS I SHOULD BE.  NOT THE ME I THINK MY KIDS THINK I SHOULD BE.  IF I WANT TO BE FREE, I'VE GOT TO BE ME.  No flowery words there but it speaks volumes because many of us end up OFF-TRACK because someone else expects YOU to be YOU based on WHAT they want YOU to be YOU!@#$%?

BUT hey, do you believe that YOU can reinvent yourself and change WHO you perceive yourself to be and your relationship to the world?  OR do you believe that you are destined to carry on as the person you have always been?  Half of you probably like WHO you are BUT some of you might still feel stuck in a rut, locked in an unsatisfying relationship, OR just plain ridden with guilt and self-hatred???

HOW often you hear this refrain:  I CAN'T HELP IT.  THAT'S JUST WHO I AM.  OR HE'LL NEVER CHANGE.  And the truth is, he might NOT.  BUT you can make a different choice for yourself if that is WHAT you want to do.  There are always key turning points in people's lives that make a difference in relation to WHO we become.  Some events are traumatic and painful and take us into 'dark places' WHERE we might wander for years❌❌❌

Our takeaway:  WHATEVER travails we wade through, I fervently believe that some of us need to take that journey so that we can chart a course back to the light of living freely and with joy.  Some of us, after we heal our own lives, bring pieces of that map back with us to pass on to others.  In the shortest words possible, we DON'T have to string our days together, feeling like we are the same person from Day-1 till the next, till our last days.  You just DON'T have to.  There is absolutely NO reason WHY you have to feel the same way tomorrow [WHATEVER transpired in your life today].  You gotta UNSHACKLE YOURSELF.  YOU'VE GOT TO BE YOU, dude❗❗❗