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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
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations