Stop Asking for Other People's Permission to Live

How many of you are waiting on someone else to tell you it's OK to take a vacation, take a much needed break from your corporate responsibilities or perhaps even give you permission to leave a bad relationship or start that business you're so talented to run? Well, I'm here to tell you - you'll be waiting for a long time to get someone else's approval. Quite frankly, we're not even promised to live another day - let alone the next few minutes, so why aren't you living the life you've always dreamed? Stop asking for other people's permission!

As I write this post, sitting here on my balcony and reflecting on my life, the choices I've made and the silliest habit I've had waiting on someone else to give me permission to live. I realize I've been in my own way. Isn't that ridiculous? Not so - there are many of us giving away our power everyday. I call it a "slave mentality". You don't necessarily have to be of African descent to understand what that feels like. There are a great number of us that struggle against what we know and what we think. Oftentimes our thoughts are the very thing that has us enslaved. I've decided to live my life on my own terms doing my own thing! Have you heard the song, "Imma do me!"? Let that be your motivation! I don't need permission to live a life that has promised me abundance...if I can believe that, then as my dear cousin and inspirational author of A Legacy of Inspirationshares, "I can achieve it!" So, watch me do me!

How did I arrive at this pivotal moment? Well, like you, I tend to put others before me. It's that childhood dysfunction thing that keeps showing up in my adulthood, but that crap is for the birds. I'm done! No more trying to be (you fill in the blank):

• the "good" (daughter, sister, lover, friend, supporter, worker, etc.,)