Nobody ever said it was going to be easy.

The lessons you learn today will serve you in your greater understanding and comfort level with life itself and you, yourself.

It's difficult, sometimes, to keep your mind on track, to keep it still, dedicated to higher purposes. Impossible, sometimes. And sometimes you may even butt heads with someone else who is in much the same place and that someone else could very well be another aspect of you.

That said, if you know what you are in the middle of, if you realize that you have what the comedian Rick Reynolds used to call "dick head momentum," then you can insert at least some sensibility into whatever confrontation - internal or external - in which you may find yourself.

If you can see the really big picture, if you can step back and assess your responses, then you can turn that mentality around enough to let things rest.

There's no sense banging your head against a brick wall, especially one you built yourself. You need to dismantle it, brick by brick by brick. So keep re-minding yourself today to be gentle, to go easy, to back out of confrontation, perhaps to wait for a more auspicious day, or maybe even to yield.

When there is a bone of contention, and the outcome matters way more to one person - or one side of your personality - than to the other, yield. Even if you "know" it is wrong. Yield. Or risk seeming like a bully. Relationships - especially internal ones! - matter, perhaps more than anything else, and a good relationship will weather a bad decision or two.

Besides sometimes it turns out that the other side is right.