Many of us don't speak out or take action in our lives not because we don't agree that change is needed, but because we are afraid of doing it wrong. 

The fear keeps us living small and accepting the status quo.

Our human brains rationalize those choices.

It seems very logical...

But we forget, the best part of our human brain provides the capacity to evaluate our own thought patterns and to purposely develop new ones. 

This is the skill we learn and practice every day at the Vet Life Academy. 

It is this ability that will create the change we desire in our individual lives, and the greater change that the world needs. 

We are resistant to examining the thoughts we aren't proud of, so we push them aside and ignore their existence. 

In doing that, we give them power... the power to keep us from taking action.

What we don't understand is that our thoughts are not a direct reflection of who we are as moral and ethical humans, they are just sentences offered to us by our human brain. 

"Our thoughts don't have moral value". -Kara Loewentheil, J.D., Master Certified Life Coach

Our thoughts don't define us.

Our actions do.

Shaming yourself for your thoughts will stop you from taking action.

We must be willing to be uncomfortable as we examine our own existing thought patterns if we are ever going to intentionally focus on what we truly value. 

Without deliberately teaching ourselves this skill, our lives (and the world) remains at the effect of unintentional thinking. 

We remain passive. 

We support in silence.

We don't grow into who we are meant to be. 

The world doesn't change.

"When you are clear on your values, the decision making comes easy." -Stu McLaren, Consultant, Founder of Tribe

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