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“I've been chasing approval my whole life and I'm exhausted.”
Other people's approval is not in your control, and it was never yours to earn permanently. The exhaustion is the price of chasing something that always moves. What you think of your own choices is the only verdict that stays.
Your Practice
Make one decision today based entirely on what you actually think is right, not what will be received well. Write down how it feels to act from your own standard instead of someone else's. That's the practice.
The Architects
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, 1952