{"id":2126,"date":"2020-11-03T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laholmberg.com\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2025-08-25T18:54:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:54:31","slug":"dont-take-my-word-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laholmberg.com\/?p=2126","title":{"rendered":"Don’t take my word for it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Don’t let\u00a0anyone\u00a0<\/i>convince you of\u00a0anything\u00a0<\/i>just because they say it’s so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does anyone know what’s\u00a0so\u00a0<\/i>for you? And if it does turn out to be\u00a0so<\/i>, how can they know it’s the same\u00a0so\u00a0<\/i>as the\u00a0so\u00a0<\/i>that\u00a0is\u00a0<\/b>for them? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They can’t! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is\u00a0so\u00a0<\/i>for you will always be different than the\u00a0so\u00a0<\/i>that is for someone else because\u00a0we are each different.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Am I saying that you shouldn’t listen and learn from the wisdom of others? Absolutely not! There is\u00a0so<\/b>\u00a0much to learn from everybody you meet, hear from or read about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I am saying is that you shouldn’t blindly follow the advice of anyone else without considering what is being said and weigh it out for yourself. If truth or interest resonates in it for you, investigate it further. If you don’t have peace with a concept, idea, or practice, don’t try to convince yourself otherwise just because\u00a0“it works for everybody else.” \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a person who gets very passionate about the things I believe in, especially when I believe they can inspire or help someone else, my expressive manner of speaking (often loudly and generally with an array of facial, hand and body gestures)<\/em> has sometimes been misinterpreted by others to mean that I think\u00a0my\u00a0so\u00a0<\/b>is the\u00a0only\u00a0so.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I don’t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my heart of hearts, my true belief is that we are each meant to interpret and believe in a variety of ways for the purpose of gathering information that is unique to each of our journeys and we should aid each other in that endeavor, rather than get in one another’s way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t let\u00a0anyone\u00a0convince you of\u00a0anything\u00a0just because they say it’s so. How does anyone know what’s\u00a0so\u00a0for you? And if it does turn out to be\u00a0so, how can they know it’s the same\u00a0so\u00a0as the\u00a0so\u00a0that\u00a0is\u00a0for them? They can’t! What is\u00a0so\u00a0for you will always be different than the\u00a0so\u00a0that is for someone else because\u00a0we are each different.\u00a0 Am I saying that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111895055,"featured_media":2128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true},"categories":[91],"tags":[177,19867,1342,61437,401,789572023,337,107,3785,2885,422,4909,1096,200,3059,15433,349],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","tag-art","tag-challenge","tag-education","tag-empowerment","tag-faith","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-inspiration","tag-love","tag-motivation","tag-poetry","tag-psychology","tag-spirit","tag-travel","tag-understanding","tag-wellness","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/laholmberg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/think-for-yourself.png?fit=355%2C474&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81q0n-yi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3719,"url":"https:\/\/laholmberg.com\/?p=3719","url_meta":{"origin":2126,"position":0},"title":"Feeling powerless?","author":"LA Holmberg","date":"","format":false,"excerpt":"\"I lost my power in this world, cuz I did not use it.\" Lindsey Buckingham This is one of my favorite\u00a0Lindsey Buckingham\u00a0lines to ponder because it's mind bogglingly true. 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