My Innerpreneur

Business Growth from the Inside Out

The Weight of the World

by Tara Joyce | My Journey | What's On My Mind

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I had one of those days yesterday. One of those days where the sadness of the world seems to be weighing down on me. I expect you have them too.

On these days I wish I could turn off my beautiful gift for empathy. Sometimes I don’t want to feel everything so deeply. Sometimes I don’t want to hold the pain of others within me. Sometimes my own pain is more than enough.

There are so many terrible things I want to change but I know I can not for I can not single-handedly save the world.

I have to be happy with my contribution, authentically given.

And most days I am. But on the heavy days, the days that weigh on me, it just isn’t enough.

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Tara Joyce

Written by Tara Joyce

This is space to share my musings—unformed ideas, collections of words that catch my fancy, that sort of thing. I'm the author of Pay What It's Worth and the Cross My Heart series.

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I saw the book Karma Queens, Geek Gods and Innerpreneurs in the bookstore and despite the fact that I had little interest in the book’s overall themes, I bought it. I was compelled by the term, Innerpreneur, and intrigued by the people it described.

It spoke to me. I connected with it. I didn’t totally understand what being an Innerpreneur meant but I found truth in it.

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