CHANGE STARTS WITH YOU.....

"Be the change that you want to see in the world"
( Mahatma Ghandi )

Continung my series about inspiring quotes, I'm bringing you this one that I find very helpful.

Too often these days people complain of feeling powerless. They talk of things, usually bad things, going on around tham and happening to them - as if they have no control over them. Not only are the events themselves stressful but the lack of ability to influence them is stressful too.

This quote stresses the need to influence those things that are under your control. You perhaps can't change other people but you can change yourself..... and this may then have an effect on others. For example, if you go around complaining that you want the world to be a happier place, then why not start with your own little corner of it? Put a smile on your face and be nice to people for no reason at all - go on, I dare you. Didn't hurt now did it....... and I bet you felt a little better too!

Imagine if a lot of others did this all at the same time. You might not recognise the place! Once others can see how the changes that you have made are having such a positive effect on you, who knows, they might just join you.

So don't waste your time and energy worrying about what you cannot directly influence, concentrate instead on making yourself into a role model for the rest of the world to follow. Be proud of who you are and of the fact that you are developing and growing as a person. There is so much more inside of you - get your light out from under that bushel and give yourself licence to shine!