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Creating Boundaries: Why Putting Ourselves First is Necessary
by Nikki Sapp
“The best day of your life is the one in which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours. It is an amazing journey and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins” – Bob Moawad
If there’s one thing we need to know about life it’s this: we deserve to be happy. And not only do we deserve happiness, but happiness is our natural state of being, so if you are not 100% happy in this moment, it means something has gone array. There is an issue that needs to be addressed. No this does not mean that everyone in our life acts exactly like we think they should, it just means we take people as they come, and then we choose whether or not we would like them to be a part of our life.
Nor does it mean that we have zero aspirations for our life, it just means we take full responsibility for achieving them or not achieving them. And no it does not mean that we are 100% certain of how exactly we are going to go about achieving those goals, it just means that even in uncertainty, we feel a sense of inner peace because we know uncertainty is part of the fun. When we take full responsibility for how our life is going and will go means we set the boundaries for who or what we will put up with. We change the things we can, and accept the things we can’t. If we allow ourselves to settle into this inherent truth about our life, we also give the other people in our life the permission to do the same.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/09/creating-boundaries-why-putting-ourselves-first-is-necessary/
