The Desert of Arizona
Sun in Back! 48 Degrees – 8:16 a.m.
Not long ago, a buyer of my book on Amazon left a one star review along with the comment you see below:
Just in case you can’t see it, it says…
“Total waste of time… All I can say is these other reviews must be planted, because there was absolutely nothing of value in this book at all. I never read a book that was filled with so much nothingness…”
We were all raised to have an emotional reaction to people not liking us. I’ve worked hard on removing that from my reality.
In fact, I’ve come to the point where I can now use events like this review as clues that I’m actually on the right path. And if I look deeper, I can find all sorts of valuable lessons from which I can learn.
For the person uninterested or unwilling to take a good hard look at themselves in an effort to improve, this book has little to no value.
But I don’t do what I do for those people. I’m not interested in those people. I don’t need them to agree with me or see things from my perspective.
In fact, I’m thankful that they disqualified themselves from getting any more attention or focus.
The point is this: People will LOVE you. People will HATE you.
Almost NEVER do either of these outcomes have much of anything to do with you.
To the extent you are able and willing to erase the story you were taught to believe about what someone LOVING you means and what someone HATING you means, you will experience freedom like never before.
The only opinion you need to be concerned with is the opinion YOU have of YOU.
And if you grant power to ANYONE to affect the opinion you have of yourself, not only have you done yourself a great disservice, but you have bought into the illusion the system tries to perpetrate:
The illusion is that those opinions others have matter.
Let the illusion die. It IS death. That is their goal. For you to willingly murder your own inner self.
Choose life. Choose yourself.