Dear Seeker,

"Do what is within your power. Refuse to do what is not."

~ Guy Finley

Excerpted from "365 Days to Let Go" (p. 203)

Special exercise: Follow freedom

Here's a simple idea to ponder -- the more expectations you have, the less free you are. When you have expectations of how life should be or how other people should act, you are enslaving yourself to things you have no real control over. We have been tricked into thinking we can change people and events -- and, yes, sometimes it does seem to work. But no one can deny that when you get right down to it, we have as much control over changing another person as we have over making the sky turn purple. And why do we spend so much time worrying about others anyway?? Follow a different path by choosing to work on yourself first. Give what you wish to receive. Be kind, and others will be more inclined to be kind in return. Be forgiving, and others will ultimately feel safer in trusting you. Instead of following your painful expectations of others, work on what you do have control over -- yourself. This is the true path to freedom.