What exerts influence on you?
What do you allow to move you one way or another? Are you easily swayed by the opinions of others?
If you're aware of what influences you, you can make sure to make allowances, to ask questions, to resist when you need to. If those influences are for the good, then listen. If they're not, move as far away as you can.
And here are a couple of things I've worked on in the last week.
Change is inevitable - grow or die.
It sounds harsh, but all growth is change. It may be slow or it may be fast, depending on the season we are in, but wherever we're at, we don't stay the same. We can't. If we stop changing we're stagnant or dead. So embrace change.
Can't see the wood for the trees. Emotions swirl and get in the way.
This page was so busy and felt quite emotional, but I really felt the pull to put some trees on there. When emotions are high we don't always think clearly. It may be necessary to put aside our feelings to see things as they really are and make better decisions. Not that emotions are bad, and we should definitely realise what our feelings are and acknowledge them, but in the heat of the moment we don't think clearly.
