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We Call It Keeping Up With The Joneses. They Buy A Boat And We Buy A Bigger One. They Get A New Tv And We Get A Big Screen. They Start A Business And We Start Planning Our Articles Of Incorporation And The First Stock Release. And While We're So Busy Keeping Up, We Ignore Our Soul, The Inner Voice, That's Telling Us That It Really Wants To Teach Children To Read. While It Helps To Identify With Each Other, We're Not The Same. So Why Compare Ourselves On The Basis Of Material Things? Are You Walking A Path With Heart In Your Own Life, Regardless Of What Others Have?

Guilt Can Prevent Us From Setting The Boundaries That Would Be In Our Best Interests, And In Other Peoples Best Interests.

It's Not What We Don't Know That Hurts Us, People Say. It's What We Believe Is True That Isn't That Does The Damage.

We Are More Than Our Problems. Even If Our Problem Is Our Own Behavior, The Problem Is Not Who We Are-it's What We Did. It's Okay To Have Problems. It's Okay To Talk About Problems-at Appropriate Times, And With Safe People. It's Okay To Solve Problems. And We're Okay, Even When We Have, Or Someone We Love Has A Problem. We Don't Have To Forfeit Our Personal Power Or Our Self-esteem. We Have Solved Exactly The Problems We've Needed To Solve To Become Who We Are.

We Need To Build Downtime Into Our Lives, So That We Can Have Solitude Without Feeling Overcome With Guilt.