“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” — Gail Sheehy Have you made any changes in your life recently and been surprised by the reactions from the people you love? […]
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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama I arrived 15 minutes late for the Saturday morning conference call, right as Kate said she was about done with announcements and we
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You know you want to change, right? But you don’t know where to start. You may find yourself thinking… “There are so many paths I could take and I don’t know how to choose.” “I hardly have enough time
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What advice would you give your 12 year-old self if you could go back in time? I know I’d warn little Susan not to drink peppermint schnapps at 3AM at that Halloween party in college. I’d also tell
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“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.” – Pema Chodron I was ready. It was time. I wanted to live my truth. I had spent so many years ignoring my true desires, and what
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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” —J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Choice is freedom. Choice means options. Choice gives us the ability to create anything
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It’s been almost a year since I first shared my story on The Change Blog. I was coming out at the happy end of several years of endeavouring to live a more creative life and I was excited to share my story with others. I had recently founded my own creative business as a designer after years of striving toward it as my ultimate goal and I felt I had finally arrived.
I told my story with pride in the hope that it I might inspire others to make a positive change in their life. But most importantly I told my story like it was done. I had arrived at my destination. I had changed.
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I have spent the last two weeks recuperating from a shoulder surgery after being injured for half the year. The time away from exercising, a hobby which in the past four years has turned from a distant source of woe to something I look forward to on a daily basis, has given me ample time to think about the benefits of exercising.
These benefits extend far beyond getting a Hot Bod or Rock Hard Six Pack Abs. The stigmatized cultural approach to the exercise obsession is that it’s an aesthetic practice, and will make you look like a celebrity or instantly become a Better Person. We’re sometimes told to exercise for the wrong reasons, to use physical discipline as an ends to something other than itself. The truth is that imposing a culturally-defined idea of vanity on something as basely beneficial as physical activity is outrageous.
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If I could go back in time to meet myself five years ago, he wouldn’t be able to believe what I would tell him. My self from five years ago was hopeless and couldn’t see any way out of the depths of suffering.
So he wouldn’t have been able to believe it when I would tell him that in just a few years time he would be truly happy and truly free from all the anguish that had been with him for the preceding twenty years…and it would be far simpler than he had ever imagined. The trouble was just that my self from five years ago was still looking in the wrong direction.
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In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same, and learn to embrace change at all times. – Michael A. Singer The only thing more frightening than believing that nothing will ever change
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I had joined the Army right out of high school for two reasons: To get away from home and to earn money for college. I succeeded in both goals.
After two years and 10 months active duty service, I mustered out, drove home to Texas, and enrolled in junior college. It was going to save me money on the front end so I could have more for the back end. Good plan, but it didn’t work that way.
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