Here’s a truth on par with the Golden Rule: never sign your name to something you don’t understand. But we do it all the time. It’s time to learn how to read legal documents so we stop willingly participating in things we do not understand. Let’s start with honesty – we made some mistakes – and then work to fix things so our children don’t make the same ones.

What is the role you’re playing in the narrative of your life? Did someone lay it on you, or do you control it? Must you do X, Y, and Z to stay part of the collective narrative, or do you have the courage and tools to write your own story?