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This year I plan to do some longer posts that go into a subject in more detail and depth. This is the first one of this style. If you would let me know whether you like this style of post or not (or what you like and dislike about it) I’d be very grateful, thanks, [...]
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In the sidebar of this blog you will find a box where you can give your answer to the question: What is your greatest difficulty with living an authentic life? This is the fourth part of my response to this comment that was put in that box: Speaking my truth whenever it will cause discomfort [...]
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There is a box in the sidebar where you can answer the question, “What is your greatest difficulty with living life authentically?” This post is the third part of my response to a comment that was left there. The comment was: Speaking my truth whenever it will cause discomfort or worse with another, especially family. [...]
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In the box in the sidebar I ask the question: What is your greatest difficulty with living authentically? This is one person’s answer. This is the second part of my response to this comment. Speaking my truth whenever it will cause discomfort or worse with another, especially family. This leads me to live very INauthentically, [...]
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I have been asking you to tell me what troubles you have with living an authentic life or with self development in general. The following was a comment left in the sidebar box. And I think it is a very good one – it puts very simply a dilemma that I think all of us [...]
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Is there a difference between a want and a need? In self development it is common to question the difference between a want and a need. I think this is largely healthy. Usually when people say that something is a want rather than a need the needs they have in mind are the most basic [...]
Our culture values control – and the favoured way to do this is rationally. I don’t mean to suggest that being irrationally out of control is preferable. In my experience if I try to control myself too much I rebel – so that too much control is likely to lead to an irrational lack of [...]
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In the last post we looked at when we are frustrated because we don’t know what we want. In this post we look at when we are frustrated because we do know what we want but don’t know how to get it. Part 2. When We Are Frustrated Because We Don’t Know How to Get [...]
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One of the reasons we get into self development is a sense of frustration. We feel that something more is possible for us but we don’t know how; or we sense that something more, or something different, is possible but we don’t know what. Frustration is an experience of being split. We have a sense [...]
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I think it was Victor Frankl who said words to the effect that “happiness is like a butterfly – if you chase it, if flees; if you are still then it may come rest on your shoulder”. In one way this is good sense. Frantic pursuit of the good times will mean that we are [...]
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