It's Still Important

First...a couple of things. If this is your first time to the blog you might want to check out why it is called "A Penny for your Thoughts" and go read the post back in December called "Intentional Time".

Second...for those of you DYING for a potty training update...Wyatt Christopher now tells me when he needs to go...and does so! It's a beautiful thing. He figured out that when he went he got to play "Cars 2" on my phone. Now...we have had to instigate a 3 second pee rule in order for him to get to pee b/c one time he went in there and literally willed 3 drops to come out...he thought he had me...oh no...the 3 second pee rule came in to play.

Now for today's post....

I am a people pleaser. This is not new news to me. I like people to be proud of me. Never disappointed. To think my choices or decisions are wise etc. This however has sometimes affected my decisions...especially if there is opposition. I have tended to voice my difference but in the end usually side with or go with the other option more out of not wanting to disappoint rather than it necessarily being the best choice.

We were presented with a decision recently where this came in to play...it has been freeing for me. Jason and I were trying to decide something that really had no right or wrong answer. But he differed in what he thought. The situation wasn't important to him like it was to me. I actually sought council on the decision, I prayed about it...I didn't want to disappoint him or others involved. What I came to realize while I was journaling was this (this is where it became a game changer for me and I hope I remember this FOREVER)...

Just because it isn't important to him doesn't mean it has to be less important to me.

Let me type that again so you don't have to re read....

Just because it isn't important to him doesn't mean it has to be less important to me.

So freeing to know that yes sometimes you have to acquiesce to the others desire...however even if you do that your opinion doesn't have to necessarily lessen. It is okay that it is still important to you.

So reader...I chose something that wasn't necessarily a "right" answer...but an important one for our family, for me. It's freeing.