Daily Thoughts
1/25/21
Welcoming challenges are opportunities for growth. Whether those challenges are interpersonal or intrapersonal, they are opportunities for us to figure out who we really are. Establishing an identity, based in authenticity, is the task before us. The only way to achieve the task is to embrace the challenges that face us. In our relationships, we need to release this concept that the other person is the enemy. Labeling them as such is more harmful to us but it is to them. It damages the connection and lessens the internal strength that we need to persevere. When we seek to hurt someone else, we are hurting ourselves first. Challenging our perspectives, both intrapersonal and interpersonal, opens the door to reaching authenticity. From where I said, I welcome the challenge to change my perspective and release others from my expectations of how they should behave.
From Where I Sit with Dr. Mark 