<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Objections to your wanting power or money often... > Objections to your wanting power or money often describe the objector’s relationship with power or money more than your own. The same reflex calls a person “self-centered” for wanting to live by their own lights, when every consciousness is necessarily the center of its own experience; the task is not to abandon your center but to find it. You serve other people best by being fully yourself, not by becoming a smaller version of what they expected. **Source:** [[livestreams/Acting With Purpose Before Certainty Arrives - Workbook|Acting With Purpose Before Certainty Arrives]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Objections to your wanting power or money often describe the objector’s relationship with power or money more than your own. The same reflex calls a person “self-centered” for wanting to live by their own lights, when every consciousness is necessarily the center of its own experience; the task is not to abandon your center but to find it. You serve other people best by being fully yourself, not by becoming a smaller version of what they expected.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-objections-wanting-power-smaller-version-expected ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->