You must stop living a small life to make others happy.

The reality is all of us are surrounded by people that we love, that want good things for us.

And yet, when we begin to strive, when we begin to change and transform and become that person that we were always meant to be,

suddenly the people in our lives that love us the most are often the ones that come at us, accusing us of having changed

and making us feel guilty for trying to become something new.

But at the end of the day, that's about them, that's their insecurity that's being triggered and has nothing to do with you.

The life that you craft for yourself, the life that you want to live is something that should fill you with excitement

and shouldn't have anything to do with what other people think, and that's why, even though we're a social animal that longs,

longs for the acceptance of other people, you cannot, for the sake of your own happiness.

You cannot allow small-minded people to make you small.

You've got to be willing to reach for something, you've got to be willing to strive to change, to gain mastery, to get great to strive to truly be the best at what you love.

And when you do that, if some people get left behind, remember, it's not you letting them go.

It's them refusing to keep up.

And it's heartbreaking to watch it when it's someone that you love, someone that you care about, to see them in pain,

and to see them accuse you of something when you know in your heart that you want great things for them.

And it doesn't mean that they don't love you. That's the weirdest thing about this. It doesn't mean they don't care.

It simply means they can't get past the way it makes them feel because they haven't accepted responsibility for their life.

And watching you pull away from them to them is an indictment of who they are. It means that what they are isn't good enough.

And even though you're not saying that, their insecurities will make them believe that to the ends.

And so you cannot let their fixed mindset, their vision of the trap that they're in become the prison of your mind.

You've got to understand that this life is about acquiring skills and really pushing yourself to see how much you can do because you really can do whatever you set your mind to.

But first, you have to set your mind to be free of what others think of you.

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