Everyone has heard about Finding Your Passion and Following Your Bliss but something about this is off. It’s the implication that living your best, most passionate life is a matter of locating it outside yourself and hanging on for dear life. It can leave you feeling exhausted, lacking and disillusioned. It leaves you asking why [...]
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Do You Like Who You’ve Become?
This is going to sound a little strange but I think I always wanted to be the woman I am. I’ve never idolized the young. I wasted my skinny youth never feeling completely at home in what today is coveted by so many, the freshness of our twenties. I looked up to older women, those [...]
Read the rest of this entry »What is the difference between your personality, your essence and your signature style?
In developing your signature style, it’s worth noting the difference between your essence and your personality. Your personality is a crazy combination of bits of your essence mixed with bits of other people’s styles you’ve adopted and adapted, plus beliefs and behaviours you’ve formed based on your experiences and environment. Your personality can be confusing, [...]
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Return to your true nature – you will experience the freedom you long for – freedom to express who you truly are Return to your true nature – you will experience the peace you long for – no longer harboring an internal tug of war Return to your true nature – you will discover the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Blending in to the extreme
Artist Liu Bolin has taken the art of blending in to the extreme. See if you can find the person in the above photo. Hint: Look for the shoes between the front tire and the scoop. Nice trick. I’m sure everyone can think of a time where this would be very useful. For example, when [...]
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If we are going to save this world we need to facilitate everyone in it reaching their full potential. The first step to healing our environment and the ailing circumstances of our economy and international relations requires that we first heal ourselves. Change, global or individual, must start from the inside out. To restore global [...]
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” — Dr. Seuss Could not have said it better. Take a minute and see if this isn’t true in your life. Who and what matters to you?
Read the rest of this entry »“Be yourself; everyone is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
I love this quote! When I read it, I feel such a sense of relief! I breathe easier. I relax. I instantly feel the pressure lift from my shoulders. I don’t have to do everything! I don’t have to be everything to everyone! Oh, I didn’t know that. I’d spent years scanning the horizon, watching [...]
Read the rest of this entry »What makes you quirky, will make you successful
I’ve said it for years and I’ll keep saying it – for every talent that exists, there is a corresponding need in the world for it. Apparrently this idea is radical – one of ’12 shocking ideas that could change the world’ according to an article I read today in Wired magazine. I see nothing [...]
Read the rest of this entry »What exactly is our true nature?
Your true nature is that eternal part of you unrelated to time, place, circumstances, culture or connections. It’s the part of you that no matter where on the earth you descended, would remain constant. Think eternal versus external. The external part of you is made up of all things necessary to survive life on earth. [...]
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