Freedom From Judgement

Beginning right now, each time you choose to not pass judgement on someone, you will be rewarded with an extra day added back into your life! Awesome, right? This would be like not counting our sleep as part of the aging process. Sleeping should not count against us, right? I think I could probably reclaim close to twenty years!

Of course none of this is possible, and perhaps the exact opposite is going on. We, each of us, is guilty of being judgmental whenever another person’s story doesn’t fit our narrative. We have all heard the story about everyone carrying around something of which we know nothing. Yet still…

“Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”

Michele Obama

It begins early in life, and there is not much any of us do to make it right, or even take steps to let go and move beyond our own blindness.

“There are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.”

Stephen R. Covey

So it’s a good day, a day to become free from judgement, living a life where everyone’s narrative comes with their right to the kind of independence available to each and everyone of us! Happy Fourth!! 🇺🇸

Talk soon…

G