It’s empowering to ask yourself what is your highest and best choice in the matter? This may be to do nothing – when putting time and energy into this would detract from your other meaningful activities.



Or perhaps you do need to put some effort into the solution. If you are not prepared to do this, and your energy is not going into equally valuable activities, then it would be helpful for you to recognize your responsibility in the matter. To recognize that your

is part of the problem!



Freedom to be yourself in a personal sense involves taking responsibility for yourself and your actions. The questions

recommends you ask here revolve, crucially, around choosing what you want to be before choosing what to do. The

is to ask yourself:





How can I live up to my highest potential?

What would love - rather than fear - do now?

These questions are very different to asking yourself, What would I like to do? or, What do I feel like doing? Your answers here will let you know what to do, and how to be.







The older you are, and the more mature you have become, the more authority you take over yourself and your actions. With that authority comes responsibility for your actions.