Own your own life first

The causes that we’re afraid to fight in our own lives, we fight through proxy in someone else’s life.

When we lack the conviction to apply ourselves to full effect in our own lives, we pacify our conscience by coming to the aid of those whose struggles offer an opportunity for us to find significance in ways that are lacking in our own lives.

Our efforts may appear noble or sincere, and we may even believe that we’re pursuing a noble or sincere cause, but nobility or sincerity cannot be measured in the absence of authenticity.

Authenticity demands that we conduct ourselves in our own lives consistent with how we conduct ourselves in the lives of others.

When such consistency is lacking, authenticity is eroded, and our insecurities grow to define our sense of justice and righteousness.

Thus, the victim mindset causes new problems while believing that we’re solving existing ones.

Any problem left unresolved only grows in complexity and intensity, slowly festering until it becomes intolerable or unavoidable.

At that point, it overwhelms us to the point of hopelessness, giving way to depression, anxiety, and unexplainable fatigue, including chronic illness.

The victim mindset causes more problems than the problems it solves.

It undermines our credibility, while diminishing the significance of those around us.

When we lack the courage to meaningfully tackle the problems in our own lives, we lack the self-worth to hold ourselves accountable for what we claim to stand for.

It always starts with what we think about ourselves long before we formulate any opinions of what we think of others.

Reflect and connect with the resolve that you have for taking action in your own life before you set out to change the world for others.

If there is a difference in how you show up between those two domains of life, you have a crisis of authenticity about who you are.

It always starts with you.

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