http://thetinysoprano.com/2009/how-well-do-you-really-know-yourself/ Operatic Riffs On Life And Music. Natalie Christie's Site For Passionate Creativity, Authenticity and Audacious Fearlessness. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:00:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://thetinysoprano.com/2009/how-well-do-you-really-know-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Shawn McCormick Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:36:32 +0000 http://thetinysoprano.com/?p=488#comment-32 It is all about choices. Everyone has roadblocks or issues that are stopping them from setting the real self free. It is never impossible, but most times people are not willing to risk the consequences of the choices required to fulfill the dream. The adventurer who's wife will leave him if he sells their Manhattan apartment and quits his 6 figure job to travel the world, or the 50 yr old executive who jumps off the corporate ladder to become a pastry chef. Not impossible, just they choose not to follow the passion because they are not comfortable with the transition between the apparent current success and what they might be. It can be downright scary. So many choose the status quo until some life event triggers them to act. It is all about choices. Everyone has roadblocks or issues that are stopping them from setting the real self free. It is never impossible, but most times people are not willing to risk the consequences of the choices required to fulfill the dream. The adventurer who’s wife will leave him if he sells their Manhattan apartment and quits his 6 figure job to travel the world, or the 50 yr old executive who jumps off the corporate ladder to become a pastry chef. Not impossible, just they choose not to follow the passion because they are not comfortable with the transition between the apparent current success and what they might be. It can be downright scary. So many choose the status quo until some life event triggers them to act.

]]> http://thetinysoprano.com/2009/how-well-do-you-really-know-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Antonio Peluso Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:44:38 +0000 http://thetinysoprano.com/?p=488#comment-27 Thank you - you've pinpointed something many people struggle with when learning to be mindful or in the "now". Being fully engaged, aligned, congruent, ... or as I heard someone say many years ago on an old audio cassette, that really stuck in my head, "be where you're at!" - is possibly the single most powerful "skill" to start making real change in life. When you live from that place of "one-ness" - life is easier, joy follows you everywhere, and people and events just start happening - by magic it seems (and it is!) Thank you – you’ve pinpointed something many people struggle with when learning to be mindful or in the “now”. Being fully engaged, aligned, congruent, … or as I heard someone say many years ago on an old audio cassette, that really stuck in my head, “be where you’re at!” – is possibly the single most powerful “skill” to start making real change in life. When you live from that place of “one-ness” – life is easier, joy follows you everywhere, and people and events just start happening – by magic it seems (and it is!)

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