The thing that drives most people to daily action and to fulfilling their potential is inner hunger.

Inner hunger is a vital feeling for anyone who wants to fulfill themselves in every area of life. When we have inner hunger, we stay alert, with life-force pulling us forward toward constant action.

And when we don't have inner hunger? We're switched off, tired, with no urge to get up and do. Just like after too big a meal — full, tired, no room for more.

When you eat only what you need, you're left with a good taste, alertness, and room for more.

As an outside observer, I often see children who are overindulged, sometimes excessively so. Their parents supply them with everything they ask for—and even things they don't.

What does that create?

Full, bored, complaining children. Children who neither appreciate what they have nor feel any gratitude.

It's wonderful to give our children everything we never had — guidance, patience, love, listening, teaching, mentoring, support. But it's just as important not to take from them what we did have — the hunger.

And that's only possible if we leave them a little "hungry".

So how do you not give your children anything they might want, when you love them so much and and want the very best for them?

We leave them a wide space to need, to want, to fall, and to ask.

In that space, the whole stage is theirs. They decide which role they want to take — and which role to give you.

❤️ Hannah