External validation can be a good thing. If you wanted to start a business and needed some customers to validate that your product is wanted, external validation is required. And, maybe jealousy, or something similar, is what is needed to light a fire under you. But, when it comes to your overall validation, you are the only one that should have an opinion.

Too often, we spend our days changing and rearranging ourselves to put us in a favorable position with others. A lot of the time this presents itself with our purchases: driving the right car or wearing the right clothes or this could be having the right friends, etc. It’s exhausting. Plus, it is a complete waste of precious time. 

I know that we will never be perfect in our end result, but the pursuit of cleansing our spirit of these negative patterns is the long game. Take a look at your life today and see what needs to be cleansed and take a run at fixing it.