What do the different levels mean? 1. Blank Page📝 It’s your move. Quill in hand, the book is open before you, the blank page is waiting. Improvement is your job, not a mood. 2. Clear Glass 🪞 Take off your mask. See your life honestly, without makeup. Your life is not a story to hide behind. 3. Binding Word 🪢 Integrity: what you say and what you do match. 4. Held Heat ⚒️ Balance under pressure. Courage without drama. Heat is allowed. Harnessing it is the skill. 5. Common Table 🪑 The Golden Rule made visible. You carry someone and you let yourself be carried. Everyone has an equal seat. Show loyalty to the people who stay when it is hard. 6. True Measure 📐 Excellence without showing off. Truth with tact. The standard went up. The volume did not. 7. Open Margin 📌 Lifelong learning. Room left on the page. Write in the margins. Nobody here is finished. 8. Inner Room 🚪 Self-mastery. Protect your peace without guilt. Focused awareness lives here: your judgment, effort, and response make up your character. 9. Still Water 💧 Smooth on the surface, the waters run deep. The work is who you are when no one is watching. Calm competence. Boundaries intact. Nothing to prove.

All three. Which is a direct result of being brought up by a narcissistic parent and an enabler. Strange how we can normalise dysfunctional behaviours and justify them.

You get pigeonholed By time thieves Whose existence Runs on grief To make you believe You are in need So the grip is secrecy Your starvation Your unanswered questions Internal appression We're surrounded by fools Wolves in sheep's clothing Excessive greed Deluded beliefs Can you clearly tell The path You now follow Will take you away From this tomorrow What can you do today To create a way A better way Your way! We're surrounded by fools Wolves in sheep's clothing Excessive greed Deluded beliefs It's time to wake up From this Real time nightmare Nobody cares! We're surrounded by fools Wolves in sheep's clothing Excessive greed Deluded beliefs

This plays into the concept that we are teaching people how to treat us every second of every day. I have often said " if we are getting treated like a doormat somewhere along the line we had to first lie on the floor" Silence Equals Permission. In the English language, to condone means to disregard, overlook, or allow something morally wrong or offensive to happen without criticizing it. When an objectionable action occurs and you say nothing, observers and the person acting both interpret your silence as a green light to continue. I understand it can be a bitter pill to swallow that we have also played a role in the shitty relationship, shitty workplace relationship, or any kind of relationship you care to mention. What do others think of this?