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It’s Not What Happens, It’s How You Handle It
Life happens... Things you can't control... People you can't avoid... Stuff happens just beyond your reach, and it...
Reaching for Perfection
Many of us dream of reaching perfection, not realizing the cost of it. Many of us dream of the day we can banish our...
Spending Your Energy
Look around you. Where, and with whom, are you spending your Energy? Do you feel like your spending it wisely? If not,...
The Want of Others
The wants of others used to matter to me. I thought somehow they were mine to fulfill. At some point I decided that...
Our Inner Critic
A reflection of our disdain for authority in our own life.
The things our critic says are likely things we heard from an authority figure.
Things we did not agree with — but heard anyway.
Things that once were someone else’s ideas about us, that have now become our own.
Saying No
It’s hard to say no sometimes.
Sometimes it feels like I can’t say it.
That it would be wrong to.
In those moments, I am feeling that no is not an option for me.
Living in Creative Tension
In Peter Senge’s book The Fifth Discipline, he writes,
“The gap between vision and current reality is a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.”
It seems to me that when we allow ourselves to be in the gap between our dreams and our reality — to live in our own creative tension — we find our self most ripe with the solutions we need.
An Invitation to Share Your Wisdom
From the moment I learned of the existence of the web, I was immediately drawn to it. I couldn’t have told you why, I just was. I felt I belonged there, and I wasn’t used to feeling that way.
What I realize now is that I was so attracted to the web because is was the first medium that allowed the individual to share their unique perspective with the world.
Shine your light.
For the first time, we, the individual, have the power to touch and connect with people from all over the world. Before, we usually only had the opportunity to shine our light on those in direct proximity to us.
The web has created an opportunity for us to share our story with the people who truly want to hear it.
Living in the Real World
It depends on where you’re looking
There are so many different worlds within this one world, this ‘real’ world, we ALL share and call home.
There’s my world, for one. And your world, for two. And you or I can both know the experience of Billy over there and visit his world through empathy, for three.
And we can go online and have the opportunity to visit millions of different worlds, each different from the next.
We can open a book and visit the world an author is creating with us, and we can turn on our screen and watch different world’s others have created for us.
I’m the Hero of This Story
Everyone around me is a character.
I can experience the characters of my world in the same way I experience characters in fiction. I can care for them, perhaps even love them, but in the end, I can only be a watcher of their story. I am a viewer of their narrative, their plot line, and the archetypes they have chosen to embrace and act out.
The only character within my power is my own.
I do not have to allow anything or anyone outside of me to dictate my reality. I have a choice as to what character I play, and the type of story I reside in. I get to create this. In my story, I get to be in choice, deciding who I want to be and what I want to do, but like when I am watching TV or reading a book, the other characters that live in my story are not mine to control. I only get to decide what the hero does, I only get to decide what I do.
Our Relationships of Integrity
They are our relationships built on mutual trust and respect.
They are our relationships in which worries subside over being taken advantage of, or of needing to control.
They are our relationships where both parties act with confidence and ease.
They are our relationships in which games are not played, and expectations and needs are communicated clearly.
These are our relationships of integrity. They are our connections where we express and share without reservation.