Last Thursday was part 1 of following your intuition, today is part 2. Just because someone agrees with my opinions and thoughts does not mean that I am anymore connected to them, to humanity, or to the Source. Just because someone lets me know that they think I’m ‘right’ does not mean that they have shared love with me, or I with them. It also doesn’t mean that I’m right, by the way.
And the opposite is true. Just because someone disagrees with me does not mean that they hate me or that we are anymore disconnected then we were a moment before. It also doesn’t mean that I’m wrong in my opinion or thought process. Just because someone thinks I’m wrong doesn’t mean that we cannot love each other and be connected on a deep level.
Abraham Maslow said “be independent of the good opinion of others.” Dr. Wayne Dyer drives this point home by saying that “you can’t get anywhere by simply doing what other people say or listening blindly to what your tribe tells you to do.”
I’ll go a step further and say that you have to own who you are, what you believe, and what you want for yourself.
Trying to please everybody means pleasing no one, especially yourself. In fact if you were trying to please everybody around you one thing I will guarantee is that you will never ever, ever, ever be happy (3 evers, that’s making a point).
I'll also guarantee you that you'll never truly know who you are what your purpose is. If you are always trying to please others you will never know where you belong. Because if you spend all of your time trying to make other people like you, trying to make other people happy or trying not to disappoint anyone, you will have spent no time figuring out what you like, what you want to do, and who you want to be. It's not sustainable.
In an effort to please everyone you will add no value to this world. But if you take the time and you do the work to figure out who you are, what you want and what your purpose is, then you can add extreme value to this world.
You don’t have to please people to truly love them. You don’t have to make people happy in order to act out of love towards them. You don’t have to have people like you in order to add value to their lives. But if love is the aim then you will have done your part to connect them and you to humanity. Now that is adding value.
How can you love those who disagree with you? Maybe its by engaging them, or maybe its by completely ignoring the way they so negatively announce that they disagree with you. How can you love those with whom you can seemingly do no wrong? How can actively love the people around you and free yourself from the chains of approval or disapproval?