Take Your Life Back

“I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be.

It’s their mistake, not my failing.” Physicist Richard Feynman, on dealing with expectations.

I know that you have heard this before. It’s all about the stories that other people tell us. Other people’s expectations of who we ought to be to the point we think we are supposed to be. We want to please those people, so we spend years trying to be that person. Just to wake up one day trying to figure out how I got here, feeling trapped and not knowing what to do next. If you are lucky, you are finding this out early enough in your life that you don’t have the responsibilities of other people, like a wife and children, a mortgage, and car payments. College education to look forward to. You get the picture. Don’t get me wrong; I am not saying that should deter you from what you want to do or who you want to be. It just has a few more obstacles along the way. So if you are reading this and it resonates with you, and do what you need to do to live the life you want. Not the one that was expected of you. As Richard Feynman said, it’s their mistake, not your failing!

Transformation starts with awareness. Awareness begins with the willingness to be vulnerable and courageous to explore alternative possibilities.

Originally published at https://www.joshuagoldcoaching.com.