Today’s Thought: Becoming Your Own Person
by, Corey Wells

There comes a time in every successful person’s life when they must stop relying on others and become their own person. The need to establish ourselves as individuals is a necessary and important part of life. This is what drives us to move out of our parent’s home, start our own business and pay our own way in life. The process begins when we decide to become our own authority figure. This requires us to make some pivotal decisions which will set us on a specific path for the rest of our lives.

The methods we choose to initiate this process will determine the type of person we’ll become. Some are so desperate to be on their own that they may compromise their integrity to do so. Personal integrity will help determine your path in life. At certain points in life you’ll be faced with challenging decisions and you’ll need to be guided by your own sense of what is right, and your personal integrity. It’s important to always look at what things mean to you, the people around you and the universe as a whole. You get to choose what is right for you, but there is a cost to breaking your own personal integrity.

If you break your own integrity you may find yourself faced with anxiety or panic attacks latter on in life. You may find that the law of cause and effect will have the things you have chosen to do come back to you in unexpected ways. There is always a price to pay for your actions, sometimes we don’t know that price until it is too late. By living and choosing our own personal integrity we can easily pick the path for our life and stand by our decisions.

When the time comes for you to become your own person, what type of person will you be. One who will do anything necessary to succeed no matter what the cost, or one who will proceed with integrity and kindness toward those who have offered you support and put you in the position to choose. The choices you make will set the tone for the rest of your life. What will you choose?

Let’s get started.

1. “So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.”
   -Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus),
2. “Thought is generally considered to be a sober and weighty business.”
   -David Bohm,
3. “An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a
   very narrow field.”
   -Neils Bohr
4. “Morality’s not practical. Morality’s a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
   -Robert Bolt,
5. “Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It’s unbridled, its unplanned, it’s full of suprises.”
   -Erma Bombeck
6. “There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.”
   -Hal Borland,
7. “The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.”
   -Giosué, Borsi,
8. “A truth that’s told with bad intent
   Beats all the lies you can invent.”
   -William Blake,

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