Life on your own terms.

Gilda Given
3 min readOct 23, 2023

1st …understand that you can’t make others behave the way you want them to behave while you can’t control even your own children or thoughts imagine how hard it is to control each and everyone around you.

What they should or shouldn't think of you.
What they should or shouldn’t tell you.

What they should or shouldn’t talk about you
What they should or shouldn’t comment on your social media post.
What they should or shouldn’t have done to you.

It’s a lot and it’s crazy.
That means you can’t.

You can’t train the world.

You can't make the world be as to how you want it to be and for how things are — it’s all supposed to be that way.

It's not a problem as how they have trained you, as how you see; it's only a problem as how you think.

For how the world is; for how people are — it’s just diversity.

Train yourself to love diversity while minding your business and leave other people alone.

You can’t make the world behave as to how you want it to be. You can’t make others behave as to how you want them to behave and for how things are ; for how people are— it’s all supposed to be that way. It’s not your job to fix anyone. It’s not your job to fix the world.

2nd.

…you need to understand that you can’t influence others if you aren’t in alignment with who you truly are.

The thing is; you think others will or tend to listen to you more when you talk a lot to them or tell them what to do or not to do — tend to do a lot with your actions and words.

Well. They can’t because by doing that you are either manipulating them with your actions or words and the influence that comes from action or words does not satisfy others as the only way to teach others is through the clarity of your example.

So what’s the true influence?

True influence is being who you truly are.

You only influence others through the clarity of who you truly are.

When you are true to yourself you are always in alignment with your inner self and that’s where all the true influence comes from.

When your true influence comes from your alignment you become an energy-oriented being instead of an action-oriented being.

How you live. How you think of others. How you feel about them.

The thing is you think others tend to listen to you more with your words and actions yet others tend to listen to you more with your feelings. What you say or do to others might not matter yet what you think of them and how you feel about them matters a lot.

3rd.

…understand that you have desires and inner guidance, and it’s your denial of your true desires and not following that inner wisdom that makes your life hard or miserable and nothing else.

When you learn to live as your desires want you to live — as your inner guidance guides you — life turns out magically.

So you are here to live your life and follow your own desires not as what others tell you to live or as what that book tells you to live.

The problem comes when you start listening to others on how you should live your life.

What you should or shouldn’t eat.
What you should or shouldn’t wear.
Who you should or shouldn’t date.
What you should or shouldn’t do.
Who you should or shouldn’t talk to.
Who you should or shouldn’t be friends with.

It's crazy and it’s confusing! Why not just follow your heart?

Well! Do yourself a favor and follow your own guidance and your true desires and see what happens.

Choose to stand in that pace of who you truly are and the world will always tend to follow you where you are.

Your life should always be lived your way.

Gilda Given :)

#thinkfit

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Gilda Given

Author | On a mission to help you live that which is true to yourself