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Are you living your life for you or for others?

How can you be sure?

It is alarming how many people do things and then immediately look for the people around them to validate what they did. When we are looking for validation, we are living our lives for the approval of other people, sadly we are all guilty of this at some point in our lives. Our need for validation from external sources is a sure sign that we have much introspection and personal growth to do. Unfortunately, most people have a very hard time taking the necessary steps to personal growth because it requires them to be alone, to traverse the unknown waters called the Self.

• Why are people so adverse to being alone and to taking a good hard look at themselves?
• Why are most of the people in the world more outer-directed than inner-directed?
• Why do people look for approval?

We have been socialized to believe that other people’s opinions are more valid than our own, nothing could be farther from the truth. What would it take to give up your need for approval?

Unless and until we cultivate our own sense of Self, Selfhood and Self-love we are doomed to create and do things to please others and ultimately wind up dissatisfied.

The road to self-love is the one you walk alone, do you dare walk it?

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