Relationships
This is part two of my response to Harriet’s comment, in response to this post. Here is what Harriet said when I asked for the biggest problem people had with living an authentic life. My biggest problem with being authentic is my fear of being hurt. I hate feeling vulnerable, and I don’t trust anyone. [...]
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Trust and being hurt can be big issues in living with authenticity. When I asked people in this post the greatest difficulty they had with living an authentic life Harriet had this to say: My biggest problem with being authentic is my fear of being hurt. I hate feeling vulnerable, and I don’t trust anyone. [...]
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Celeste’s greatest difficulty with living an authentic life has to do with a difference with her partner. I think this is the kind of difficulty that most of us deal with day to day and which is often where the rubber hits the road in living with authenticity. In the comments to this post, where [...]
Kat Sanborn has been kind enough to send me a copy of The Gratitude Power Workbook to review. What kind of book is it? It is a workbook. It has space for you to write in and exercises to do around gratitude. It doesn’t try to convince you of the importance of gratitude or deal [...]
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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A little while ago Daniel Brenton was kind enough to interview me on his blog, Gratitude Watch, about what I thought about gratitude. In this post and the next one I’m interviewing Daniel about what he thinks about authenticity. He shares in a very personal way about how he found his sense of purpose or [...]
In a lot of my posts I mention the importance of listening. In our relationships I think there is nothing that is more important. It is easy enough to learn how to listen well enough to make a major difference to our relationships. It requires few resources other than time and somewhere fairly quiet. So [...]
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