If you are an entrepreneur, or hope to become one, you have goals, you have a vision. You look at your surroundings and envision something bigger, something better.
You probably also have people in your life, family and friends, people you love deeply and care for with all your heart, who don't. They wish for "a dream life" in some way, like a winning the lottery kind of way, but they don't have a big vision, they don't have big goals. When you share your goals with these people, you are sometimes met with derision and negativity. They completely accept their current life and job and TV evenings and Friday night family time with the Wii.
Here's the thing. It's OK. They are allowed to have goals, they are allowed to accept mediocrity. They are allowed. Often these are people for whom you can envision a better life, a healthier life, a happier life. But, if they don't care, you can't wish it for them and you can't make them want it.
One of my daily struggles is the suspension of judgement. It is something I pray for guidance with every night of my life. Those who I love, for whom I see something better who don't see it for themselves. It is so easy to fall into a place of judgement, a place where you believe they are wrong to not want more, not see more.
But that's not our job. Our job is to love them. Without condition or cause. You can wish them the best, the happiest, the healthiest day or week or month or year or life.
Good point. Although it's good to have goals, perhaps our loved ones are happy with their lives. Nothing wrong with being content with what you have. As you said, we must love our close friends and family unconditionally and without judgement.
ReplyDeleteAwe, suspending judgment. It's a challenge for me too. :) It helps, a little, to remember that they have their own path, their own guidance on that path and I'm not the guide. Not always easy to accept.
ReplyDeleteGlad to know I'm not alone with this challenge Michele.
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