When we decide to escape our emotional and mental conditions, 

it is more of a letting go than a forcing out. 

We do not need to push through, or fight harder, or resist more, 

all we need, 

is the willingness, 

to let,

go. 

Let go of the fear. 

Let go of the worry.

Let go of the anxiety. 

Once we let go, we are free to hold on to faith, hope, and courage. 

People choose what they know. 

Everyone will hang out with those they connect with.  

Everyone will buy the products they are familiar with. 

Everyone supports what they are comfortable supporting. 

People choose to spend time with those they know. 

Whatever seeds we plant in our minds grow into the garden that creates our hearts. 

Everything starts as a mental condition before it is woven into the fabric of our character. 

Happiness, suffering, joy, peace, hope, fear, sorrow, gratitude, grief, and love are all seeds of thought that were allowed to grow into feelings. 

Hope and ambition take us where we want to go. 

Commitment and focus keep us there. 

Needing to explain and justify why we don’t do what we are supposed to do is the ultimate sign of lack of courage, feeble-mindedness, low discipline, and weakness of character. 

We are all weak.

We all have weaknesses.

Weakness is not a character flaw unless we give in permanently.

When we make covenants and commitments and choose to permanently break them,

then we are choosing weakness, and that becomes part of our character.

Hope is an accelerant. When gratitude is practiced, then happiness is created. Add in hope and that is what ignites true joy.

Whenever we hear truth that goes against our current belief system, and especially truth that shows us what we are not doing right or are actually doing wrong, our instant reaction is revolt. We deny. We justify. We make exceptions to the “truth” or rule. 

Yet, this is the first step.

This awareness that we are rejecting truth allows us to begin asking the right questions:

• Why am I revolting?
• Why is it so hard to hear?
• Why do I feel attacked? 

Once we can honestly ask those questions, we can begin to examine, study, ponder, pray, and change. 

Learning together is the most efficient path to mastery. Teaching, Studying, Working together always produces the best results. Sharing knowledge increases expertise.

Expectations are a self-fulfilling prophecy or they can be the opposite, depending on the source of the expectation.. The expectations others place on you can be fuel to prove them wrong, when they come from someone ignorant, because then you want to prove them wrong. If they are smarter or more experienced, then their expectations become what we live up to.