Monthly Archives: July 2008

Wisdom 101: #1 Speak Your Mind

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A powerful aura surrounds the person who speaks their truth without hesitation

What is your truth? Does such a thing even exist? Take an example from your own life, if you dare to: identify one thing you’re currently doing for the sake of maintaining appearances. Perhaps it’s a business partnership you want to get out of, but you don’t and you have a hundred reasons why not. How much energy is it costing you? If you were free to do what you want with regards to that thing, what choice would you make?

Imagine how your life would accelerate if you did that, without fail.

Think of the thousands of further decisions that emanate from every decision you make – the network that spreads like a web before you. Each decision adds another branch in a new direction. If you’re not doing what you want, you begin to resist the spread of those branches; you slow down the progress of your life, and you call it ‘being in control’.

Acting on what you want inevitably means speaking your truth. Imagine how your life would accelerate if you did that without fail, every moment.

Insights #1: No man is an island!

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My life has revealed itself to be a balloon – or at least to have the qualities of a balloon: with the energy of youth I puffed myself up; it took just a few hefty puffs – those few early successes – and I was sure I filled up the whole universe; I couldn’t possibly learn anything new.

Of course, once you have anything, your instinct is to protect it. When your balloon is fully inflated, the tiniest pinprick can blow the whole thing to smithereens. Protecting my reputation – my inflated ego – from the slings and arrows of life became important for me; my own particular response was to hide my talents for fear of criticism (I wrote and wrote but didn’t publish a single thing for years).

Resistance is futile

Sooner or later life forces you to confront yourself, to own up to the likes and dislikes you’ve been denying, and the talents you’ve been hiding; the sooner you do this, the sooner you decrease the pressure and the less likely you are to blow.

As for me, I’m back, I’m writing, I’m having fun…