A Right to Our Wants
Our focus this week — July 30-Aug 5: “Boundaries”
Today’s MotD: A Right to Our Wants. We’re reminded that we have a right to want what we want…we may not get it but we certainly won’t get it if we don’t declare it in some way first. The more we believe we have this right, the more readily we’re able to know more of what we want. In other words, we start gaining momentum, confidence, and self-esteem with declaring our wants.
The beauty of declaring our wants is that we and those around us gain clarity about them. For instance, we may want to set a boundary (a declaration) that it’s important to us that people show up on time for events/meetings/appointments/etc. With that, now we know that yes, this is what I want and now everyone else knows it too. So if someone does show up late, knowing this boundary, they’ll need to face the consequences (that sounds harsh—but I couldn’t think of another word to use instead).
Our challenge becomes coping with people who respond to our wants with something like “Oh, you don’t want to do that”. My dad did this to me and my brothers a lot when we were growing up. Almost anytime we said what we wanted and it didn’t align with what he wanted for us, he would tell us “you don’t want to do that” and he’d proceed to talk us out of it…we didn’t know any better at the time. Talk about soul crushing.
We’re entitled to want what we want. Now it’s a matter of doing what is necessary to make our wants a reality.
How about you ? Have you thought about your wants as being a right ? Do you tend to change your wants based on contradictory comments from others ? Or worse, from yourself ?
BTW…Here’s the before…the front and back view of today’s puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number:
Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
Creating Mandalas 🔆 Awakening Inner Harmony
ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day
Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.
Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.
Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.
Mandala of the Day 