Put that down! It’s not yours, anyway? When you take the time to get to know yourself, you don’t run the risk of living someone else’s dream.
Self-knowledge will allow you to appreciate and admire someone else’s dream and cheer them on to Destiny as it unfolds for them.
Knowing thyself means you can celebrate with your coworker who just got a promotion at the company where you’re simply passing through.
The promotion is their dream, not yours. But if you don’t know yourself, you might become jealous, confused, or angry, asking, “Why did Amanda get the promotion?
I’ve got more education than her, and a broader skill set, too.” What difference does it make? That’s not your dream; it’s your coworker’s.
If you’re working for a while at a retail chain, be happy that Greg got promoted to management. You may be smarter, more educated, and have more experience, too.
But if retail management is not your destiny, giving you a promotion there would only make you and everyone around you miserable.
What works for someone else simply won’t work for you. Do the work required for your own life and stay away from other people’s dreams.
Don’t be jealous or insecure about other people’s accomplishments. God has an abundant storehouse of blessings for you as the God-destined life for you unfolds.
Knowing thyself means you can be happy for your BFF when she gets married, even while you wait for your Mr. Right.
Knowing you means you can be genuinely happy for the person who earns another degree, moves into their dream house, or buys that head-turner of a sports car.
Destiny is smart and she doesn’t make mistakes. You can try all you want to live someone else’s destiny, but it just won’t fit.
You’ll never flow in what you do by living someone else’s dream, and it will never feed your soul.
It doesn’t matter how good it looks if you get the dream job and all the perks that go along with it, if you get the eye-candy woman on your arm, or the Nobel Prize, or the scholarship to Harvard, or the home in a gated community—if something isn’t a part of your destiny, it cannot bring you fulfillment.
Have you ever known someone who seemed to have everything, yet they never look happy? I mean everything.
A man can wear expensive tailored suits, live in the city’s most desirable neighborhood, and have a beautiful family of Rhodes Scholars who’ve never caused their parents a day’s trouble.
Those are all wonderful accomplishments for which anyone should be grateful, but if that man is not living Destiny, there’s a big hole someplace.
The big hole is why your next-door neighbor can be driving a Mercedes to a job she despises and start hating on you as you happily drive an old pickup truck to make deliveries for your own business.
When you live your own dream, you don’t have time to be a hater. You can’t even think like a hater, because all of that negative energy will just bring you down.
You need all of your energy for Destiny. Don’t waste it on someone else. When you are fulfilled in pursuit of Destiny, you’re good and you want everyone else to be good with themselves, too.
If you know thyself, you’ll be better equipped to identify and extract your authentic needs from what you’ve been told you need.
A consumer who knows thyself will be able to distinguish an authentic need from a conditioned need and bypass the latest – new product release if the one she has is adequate for her needs.
When you are in touch with your own pursuit of Destiny, you seek the things you need to accomplish what you desire.
That’s not to the exclusion of wants; please don’t misunderstand. I’m not asking you to consider a life of only basic needs.
I do not want to see you living in agony surrounded by accoutrements that weigh you down rather than build you up.
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