This is our biggest, most important challenge.

How often do we bend and twist to become a better fit for someone else’s agenda?

Compromise is fine, but life’s decisions are yours to make and no one else’s.

We sometimes work in jobs we don’t like.

Stay in relationships that are just plain wrong.

Miss opportunities to follow our dreams because someone else has a powerful influence on us.

My vow is to live my unique life – not that of someone else or unduly influenced by another.

When I told my Italian father who was a military man and government worker that I wanted to be a disc jockey on the radio, he did everything he could to talk me out of it.

He said I should find a more secure career (you think?) and do something more normal.  Of course, he was the one who eventually bragged to his friends to “listen to my son on the radio”.  To not follow my dream would have been the worst choice.

Even well-meaning people can detour us from the sequence of events that is our unique life.

Don’t live someone else’s life.  Start by talking honestly to yourself about that which makes you happy and fulfilled and have the confidence to listen to your inner voice.

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