Daily Gratitude: It always amazes me when there’s a series of these quotes/sayings that fall into my lap and they are around the same topic. Believe me, I don’t seek them out. It’s for that reason that I just “go with the flow” when they do show up. I posted a quote in late July about not judging people based on just what you see since you have no clue what their “story” is. You must decide who you are and who you want to be. This requires examining deep inside to discover what your core beliefs are. And then to question whether they are really yours or just things you absorbed because people told them to you over and over as you were growing up. I know I was “taught” that i wasn’t worth anything and wasn’t good enough etc. it took me nearly 70 years to get in deep enough (and thank goodness I had help and had learned about IFS- Internal Family Systems) to discover that these were just things I’d been told. After all that is what a belief is – a thought you keep thinking over and over again. I had to ferret out each one and then look for evidence- evidence proving it was true or evidence proving it was false. It’s hard but we have to keep doing it. Things change and so do we. But it’s our responsibility to know ourselves, not to just accept what others say or think. Start by examining your core beliefs. Write them down. Then try to find the proof. This will take some time but it’s worth it.