I was editing some video today. Couldn't really get it to do what I wanted it to do when I realised that two tracks were linked together. This association meant that I couldn't edit the tracks individually. It was a simple matter to break the association and then I could achieve the transformations I was seeking.

Walking back from my local shop, it struck me how my own life had been unnecessarily brought love by false-associations. When my business fortunes had shifted dramatically, I had allowed that downturn to remain associated with my self-image. The business had failed, ergo I was a failure.

I hope you're laughing, or at least smiling, at how absurd that link is. I am not my business.

The subject, however, is serious. How many of us have associated our self-worth with our relationship to someone special? If that relationship ceases for any reason, we can allow that loss to impact our self-worth. The loss of a job can have a similar effect... if we let it.

Today, I'm recommending that we break such associations. It's time to separate the tracks in the great Editing Software of Life, and assign new value and meaning to each distinct part of our lives.

I am not defined by the success of my business.

I am not defined by my bank balance.

I am not defined by the success of my relationships.

I am not defined by my employed status.

I am not defined even by my health.

I am something beyond all these links.

And so are you.

You are beautiful because you are simply beautiful.

You are lovely because you are distinctly lovely.

You are worthy because you have worth in my sight, and, I hope, in your own sight too.

I value you.

Lex

A Moodscope member.