Authority

As you gain ground, study, learn you have a new authority to speak. Yet how many times do you allow those without authority to speak into your world?

As an individual it is important that we speak what we know not suppose. It is important that we do not speak out of someone else's authority but our own. So many times we can think that that person has it right only to find out they spoke with authority but did not know what they were speaking about. If we use what they say then the egg is on our faces not theirs.

I have people who think they know how I should run my life, my business, my world. They speak freely their opinion but I must know myself how I will conduct my life and be polite but not take it to heart. Not taking it to heart is the hard part because often they are close to me.

We have to have a thick skin when criticised and not go to water or become angry and abusive in return. What is achieved if I am just like my critic, they have won then haven't they? Don't go there! Rise above the critic and move on.