Live your true life
What if I were to tell you that your fears are your most powerful guiding light? I’m guessing your response might include words such as “are you insane?” Ah, well. No. I’m not insane. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’m…
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Have you ever re-read a book or re-watched a movie only to be surprised to see something for the first time? It was always there, but for some reason, that piece that was previously obscured from your consciousness, suddenly jumps…
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It’s big. It’s scary. It is way, way, WAY out of your comfort zone. And if you are determined enough to step toward it anyway, you’ll actually find that it isn’t so big, it isn’t so scary, and your comfort…
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There’s an obvious attraction to staying in our comfort zone. It’s comfortable. It’s where safety lives. Security. Predictability. Familiarity. It’s also where we settle. We accept things as being OK, or fine. It’s where mediocrity lives. And it also where…
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I recently heard a lady talking about her teenage son having a sudden growth spurt and finding that his jeans were now too short for him. He was quite disappointed because these had been his favourite jeans! He kept trying…
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I was watching an interview with Caroline Myss last night and something she said struck me. And a whole bunch of childhood memories came flooding in. She said: “Perfectionism is just another disguise for fear. The fear of criticism.” Wow….
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I was listening to a podcast last night where a caller had rung in to ask the presenter what job she should go for, given her age and her previous experience. I laughed at the answer – not because it…
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Letting go of what you know in order to move forward into uncertainty is much easier said than done. Fear of the unknown is a common blocker that many of us use as a reason to stay stuck and ‘making…
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My sister and brother-in-law are in the process of building a house which happens to be a few doors down from me. It’s been taking a while as they’ve been building it themselves. And by a while, I mean a…
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Human beings are born with only two innate fears: the fear of falling and the fear of loud noise. All the other fears are conditioned into us. Some fears we can pinpoint to an actual event, like having a fear…
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