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Of course, you can not control what other people will think or feel about you. Of

course, you cannot control what reaction people have towards you. You cannot

control the responses people will have.

What you can control though and what you are responsible for is for owning your life

and for asserting who you are and what you are all about. What your needs are

because unless you tell people what you'll need in order to feel good or secure or less

anxious people are not going to know that you're not coping. People cannot read your

mind. As we've established already everyone has a fundamentally different belief

system underlying who they are and how they make their choices in life which is why

we need to let others know what we need.

It's not that one belief system is better than another either, because it's not. It’s just

that we are all relying on each other to be ourselves so that we can really know how

to act with each other. So, in order for people to really know how to treat you or how

to behave around you, you need to start owning who you are, what you're all about.

Then you have to have the courage to just be yourself and once you start doing that,

people will always meet you at where you are.

Have you ever noticed how there are some people in your social circle who you always

spend that extra $10 to $15 or $30 on a gift for? And then there are those other people

in your social circle where you'll just go pull up a half dead plant out of your backyard,

chuck it in a pot and give it to them as a free gift?

Why is that?

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