Does Your Partner Inspire You?
Because life isn’t about to wait for you to get real.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
So much noise. Life has a way of creating such a racket that it can be difficult to see where you’re going and who you’re meant to be taking with you. Especially these days when everything feels fast and expendable. Including people. Maybe that’s why we are so conditioned to cling onto relationships that have clearly run its course, and why many of us choose to stay with a partner who no longer inspires or enhances the natural flow of our inner-growth and creative hearts. Familiarity can be comforting, but it can also prevent us from reaching our full potential. Our most intimate connections play such a big role in how we experience life.
Just about everyone has heard of Jim Rohn’s following observation:
“You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.”
I know in my heart there is truth in those words. From friends to lovers, I have experienced the powerful and influential effect of my closet relationships, both negative and positive. And, after my fair share of becoming entangled with toxic or self-centered people, I realized…
