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On significance and how it robs us of lightness, freedom and self-expression

We all want to be signficant – to be someone rather than anyone, to be looked up to rather than looked down on.  And most of us spend our lives striving for significance and in the process we carry a...

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Playing BIG (practice 2) – lose the significance and play

Taking yourself so goddamn seriously is a key piece in the game called ‘Playing small’. Our automatic (always on) way of being is taking oneself SERIOUSLY because we are thrown into the game called...

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Live a life of freedom: dismantle the prison bars by dismantling positions...

Live is full of experiences – some of them painful Come take a walk with me down memory lane.  Imagine that you are around 7 years of age, it is autumn, it is cold, you have just got off the school bus...

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What will be inscribed on your headstone? “something was left” or “used up!”

A funny story my physics professor told me In the final year of my physics degree I told the professor that I was thinking of going into business upon graduation.  On hearing this he told me this...

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How would you experience living if you lived from this stand? I love me!

I walked into my daughter’s room and saw this morning and upon seeing it I marvelled at and simply have to share this with you: How would our experience of living (individually and collectively) occur...

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What really matters?

“If only” and “Someday” What is it you tell yourself?  Isn’t it something like “If only I had the money/food/love/sex/fame/power/status…. then I’d be happy and everything would be perfect”?  Which...

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Standards, possibilities, self-expression and play

A commitment to standards or possibilities? Choose wisely “Is it possible to be committed to a set of standards that have nothing to do with being fully alive?  You’ve got standards rather than...

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Freedom and Self-Expression

“Most of us think that freedom means to keep our options open, stay loose and available, and often that strategy does give you a little space temporarily. Eventually, though, keeping your options...

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Awaken: It’s Never Too Soon!

Stop bullshitting! Kathleen Taylor finishes here TEDx talk with the following exhortation: Discover and express your amazing uniqueness in the world. Stop bullshitting Why does Kathleen say this?...

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Life Isn’t Working Out As I’d Like It To Work Out

Life isn’t working out as I’d like it to work out. The question that I am left with is this one, how to be about what is so?  I have been grappling with this (including some help from Gregory Bateson)...

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Daring Greatly: Moving From The Stands And Into The Arena

Having stepped out of, perhaps only a little, the dungeon of fear I find that I am that much more sensitive to the fear that grips so many of us.  For example, this week I came face to face with the...

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Playing BIG In 2015: Optimism, Possibility, and Self-Expression

You and I are confronted with choice. You/i can play small – the default of serving, fixing, getting ahead, making it… Or you/i can play BIG: life a live of meaning and self-expression. If you are up...

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