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We are powerless over other people's expectations of us. We cannot control what others want, what they expect, or what they want us to do and be. We can control how we respond to other people's expectations.

During the course of any day, people may make demands on our time, talents, energy, money, and emotions. We do not have to say yes to every request. We do not have to feel guilty if we say no. And we do not have to allow the barrage of demands to control the course of our life. We do not have to spend our life reacting to others and to the course they would prefer we took with our life.

We can set boundaries, firm limits on how far we shall go with others. We can trust and listen to ourselves. We can set goals and direction for our life. We can place value on ourselves. We can own our power with people.

Buy some time. Think about what you want. Consider how responding to another's needs will affect the course of your life. We live or own life by not letting other people, their expectations, and their demands control the course of our life. We can let them have their demands and expectations; we can allow them to have their feelings. We can own our power to choose the path that is right for us.

Today, help me own my power by detaching, and peacefully choosing the course of action that is right for me. Help me know I can detach from the expectations and wants of others. Help me stop pleasing other people and start pleasing myself.

Melody Beattie ©



All the blessings in life happen to us as they happen through us. Be the blessing, so that the blessings can increase, develop and grow. "Today, I consciously bless everyone I meet."

Mary Manin Morrissey

"Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater."

Nicholas Evans


Giving is a flowing energy that not only helps others but also creates more for the person who is doing the giving. When you are selfish or frightened of generosity you stop the circulation. Giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin.

Trudy Styler




We see ourselves as broken, and then set out on a long and frustrating journey to fill our emptiness. But it is not fixing that we require; it is awakening.

Alan Cohen


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Co-creation is more than collaboration. Co-creation occurs when individuals bring all that each can offer to a joint effort and, at the same time, open themselves to a larger, or higher, idea that may not have previously occurred to any of them.

Gary Zukhov


"My mind is seeking in every part of existence, in the seen and unseen, searching and longing, only to discover 'the one that is looking."

Tony Parsons


"You can find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

G. K. Chesterton