Are you bringing your best self? Choosing battles wisely

You must choose your battles wisely, decide what you care about and choose what concerns you.

Some things are too small and petty to consume even a bit of your time and energy.

Many times people try to fight fights that aren't their responsibility to fight.

Use wisdom to realize that being our best or greatest self, is being able to interact with, and love others.

So being able to diffuse a situation

You can't help everyone.
You can't save everybody.

Sometimes we can create an argument or confrontation simply by judging a situation by how we are not viewing the situation from the perspective of others.

Viewing this idea of choosing your battles from a religious stand point, is similar to the WWJD approach.

Asking what would Jesus do, when it comes to differences among those we love, allows us to approach the conversation with compassion, instead of aggressive with emotions and passion.

We must understand how to communicate and coexist; man or woman, black or white, regardless or rich or poor, this will create a balance.

It is easy to pick a fight, especially when you are always right in your own mind.  Life would be much easier if every one had the same idea of what right is.
Every one can agree that some things are both socially and morally wrong.
Even still if every one was raised the same and shared similar experiences that made them who they are, there would be no arguments, just a deadly boredom .

When it comes to personal relationships such as family and friends, a lot of time we will feel we are put in compromising positions.

Relationships are built from compromise.

Compromise is balance as long as both parties are willing to compromise.

Small battles create larger wars, so to create a treaty of peace takes the bigger and wiser person.

Every situation doesn't have to become an altercation.  There are alternative ways to taking control of a situation.
All things are test that can examine how far you've come in maturity.

If you feel that your relationship with others isn't great, ask yourself are you great in the relationship you are in.  Making no excuses are you being as understanding as possible?
Are you being as peaceful as possible?
Are you being as loving as possible?
Remember you can not fight for respect o demand it.
You earn respect.

Some relationships are easy, in the end they may show not worth having, but a relationship worked on, built with a foundation of earned respect and trust is worth far more than an overnight affection or a masked persona.

To see a person as who they are in their honest, imperfect state is a gift.
For that person to allow you in their person space to even have the place to judge is an opportunity most don't have.

Even if a person is wrong it is no accident that you crossed their path.
Consider every blessing a lesson.

When you are living your best life, you can now vision the scene without the character of those who do not add to the quality and essence of your greatness, which is soon to come.

When you throw that work on a scale, it will be pure. It will be straight drop.

Blessings to all the readers,
Prayers for more patience in your day to day struggle. For we all struggle with something.

Bless you with the power to stand up.

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