WHO KNOWS BEST:

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It is our job to determine what's best for ourselves.

"I know what you need." …. "I know what you should do." … "Now listen,
this is what I think you should be working on right now."

These are audacious statements, beliefs that take us away from how we
operate on a spiritual plane of life. Each of us is given the ability to be able
to discern and detect our own path, on a daily basis. This is not always easy.
We may have to struggle to reach that quiet, still place.

Giving advise, making decisions for others, mapping out their strategy, is
not our job. Nor is it their job to direct us. Even if we have a clean contract
with someone to help us – such as in a sponsorship relationship – we cannot
trust that others always know what is best for us. We are responsible for
listening to the information that comes to us. We are responsible for asking
for guidance and direction. But it is our responsibility to sift and sort
through information, and then listen to ourselves about what is best for us.
Nobody can know that but ourselves.

A great gift we can give to others is to be able to trust in them – that they
have their own source of guidance and wisdom, that they have the ability
to discern what is best for them and the right to find that path by making
mistakes and learning.

To trust ourselves to be able to discover – through that same imperfect
process of struggle, trial, and error – is a great gift we can give to
ourselves.