The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. For me hearing a presentation, live, by Jack Canfield, came at the perfect time. I was in San Diego, the traveling babysitter for my precious 5-month old granddaughter, while my daughter attended a nutrition conference.
It was an all around win-win situation—a new place to sightsee and of course spend quality alone time with baby Rachel and daughter Penina. When I found out Jack Canfield was the final key speaker, I jumped at the chance to attend.
As a society, we are so quick to assign blame and pull out all the excuses as to why something did or did not happen. We relinquish all power when we go there. Where are we in this? I know that by nature many of us are passive recipients of life and are at the mercy of what befalls us.
In my practice as a therapist, clients would talk for years about being stuck because of what their dysfunctional nuclear families did to them. What comes all too naturally for me is my quick ability to find fault with others, to pass judgment and criticize.
But they do rear their ugly head often enough. I know where it comes from; therefore that explains it but it certainly does not excuse it. This is my problem, my issue. Not owning up to our actions—this takes away our part in doing anything different.
