A Profound Empowering Influence: Dr. Seuss

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem & smarter than you think." - Winnie the Pooh

Some of the most profound and enlightening literature is found in the stories we heard and read as children. Philosophers such as Winnie the Pooh, Dennis the Menace and Dr. Suess taught us how to live authentically with confidence. And we often abandoned those lessons; pushing them aside as "stuff for kids". As we grew we abandoned authenticity, lost confidence and often lost our ability to play, create with abandon.

"The best thing you can do is get good at being you." - Dennis the Menace

That's our purpose in life; to express our full potential. Yet many people work hard, even throughout a lifetime, to express someone else's unexpressed potential. The people allow the should-ers, the people who tell them who they should be, what they should do and what they should have, dictate their life. And so they live a life unexpressed, with their story untold, their song unsung.

I suggest we treat ourselves to an afternoon or two, or twenty, devoted to revisiting the stories we read and adored as children. We marveled at these stories, these characters, because they called out for us to acknowledge and embrace who we are at our deepest core. We were inspired to live loudly and create expressively. Winnie the Pooh, Dennis the Menace and Dr. Seuss remind us that we are individuals with unique gifts to bring to the world. Our purpose in life is to....

"Be who you are and say what you feel. Those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss.

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