Do you empower or enable people?
If there are people or events in your life that keep you off balance, unplug from them or change your perspective. Keep your focus on your goals, not what others are thinking, saying or doing.
Release yourself from obligations that are truly not yours. Many believe they are helping others while in reality they are stifling their own growth. Offer advice to those who request it. If they resist what you say, then let it be. They are not ready to hear your words. Perhaps your words are not correct for them. No one knows what is best for anyone else except the one who created them, for there are many complex issues going on behind the scenes that we are not privy to.
Allow others to make their life choices. Although it is difficult to watch loved ones make decisions leading to pain, many have their greatest awakening during their darkest hour. Encourage others to continue on their Path.
See them as capable of resolving their own problems or seeking help on their terms. When you “teach them to fish” instead of fishing for them, you will empower rather than enable them.
“Help each other in troubles and problems. This is the kind of law Christ asks us to obey. If anyone thinks he is important when he is nothing, he is fooling himself. Everyone should look at himself and see how he does his own work. Then he can be happy in what he has done. He should not compare himself with his neighbor. Everyone must do his own work.” ~ Ephesians 6:2-5
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