I am very fortunate to be able to work with people who inspire me and consistently help me to question my beliefs and, more importantly, my assumptions.  By doing so, I am constantly exploring new ways of thinking and being.  I am often challenged to re-evaluate my own integrity, honesty and potential, checking for alignment with what I feel is congruent with my sense of what is optimal in my life.  I am thankful for these people and for these moments because they do not allow me to become too comfortable with the concept of my ideas as "right, justified, or superior."  In the work that I do, it is a liability to ever think that you have the answers for someone else or even that your own personal answers to life's questions are in any way immutable and static.  I personally believe that we are always at a place of choice about how we are going to think about and react to the situations that life brings to us.  So, whereas, I do not control the external circumstances of life, I have the ability to choose to feel differently or alter the thoughts, beliefs and perceptions about my life and about the world around me.