March 21, 2024

 

Instead of letting the things that trouble me drive me crazy, I’m going to let them drive me to change!

There is a price I pay for complacency, apathy and paralysis.

 

Rather than saving myself a headache, I pay for these things in my physical and emotional health.

It’s the cost of swallowing, silencing and inaction.

 

I pay a toll to swallow my emotions, silence my voice and look the other way.

 

It’s the price of the bystander who refuses to act. They silently teach themselves and others that no one will come in their distress.

 

It’s the way that we perpetuate silence until we are silenced.

 

It’s the way I support abuse when I won’t defy the abuser. I teach all of us that it’s okay, we are deserving of it and there is no recourse.

 

This year, I will not let troubles, troubling people or troubling situations drive me. I will drive!

 

I’m putting myself back in the driver’s seat of my life by changing:

 

-my response

 

-my perspective 

 

-my position 

 

No more sucking it up. I’m done drinking this bad mix, this cocktail of indecision, this recipe for inadequacy.

 

You are not the boss of me, Trouble!

 

I will not be driven to extremes, driven to depression or driven to inaction.

 

As a matter of fact, I’m going to drive:

 

-away; away from the people, places and things that no longer serve me

 

-forward; with a renewed sense of purpose and vision 

 

-with intention; I will no longer allow other people’s intentions, agendas or poor behavior to drive me!

 

I’m going to drive! I am going to drive change! I’m going to drive by changing ME!

 

Happy 2024!