Are you asking for everyone else's opinion??

I read this a while back in my inbox…
Your joy factor will remain constant as you are continually refining your ideas of what you want, and that’s why it is so important for you to get everybody else out of the equation. They’ve got their own game going on; they don’t understand your game. Give them a break; stop asking them what they think. Start paying attention to how you feel. Joy will be yours immediately, and everything else that you have ever thought would make you happy, will start flowing, seemingly effortlessly, into your experience.
—Abraham
and it got me thinking about how often people ask others opinions. It made me wonder then how many people lose sight of their own dreams from the input of others, invited in, by you!
Maybe it is a form of self sabotage?
I know that many people think that we should worry about what others think.. that somehow disappointing society will affect us in great ways.
That if we don’t “live up” to the ideas, dreams or visions that our family, our friends or our role models have of us, that we will fail, have no value… and that, for many… that might just kill us.

HOWEVER…

Would it be truer to say….
If I don’t “step into, try or do” the ideas, dreams or visions that I have in my heart, mind and soul that I will feel like I have failed me, that I am not valuing the life I have been given… and that, for many… might just kill me.
I believe life truly is about LOVE… and when we are not loving to our self
to our ideas…
to our dreams…
to our visions…
we become resentful of everyone else…
and then our dreams are dead, gone or unfulfilled.
I have found that when you ask everyone what they think about whatever it is you are doing, you tend to water down your dream or vision based on their input.
Maybe it is time to just follow your own heart..
your own guidance…
Maybe today, you could just ask yourself..
just you…
What do I want?
and then just listen:)
Please share in the comments below if this resonates with you in any way – Sunny Dawn Johnston