“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger’s lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to […]
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I found this poem a number of years ago, but I think it’s fitting right now with school starting and fall drawing near. This often feels like a period of transition and change. And change takes willingness and courage. So I like to revisit this poem every so often to make sure my heart is still
Yesterday I attended the Women in Technology Summit where a line in a video that was shown stuck to my mind: “Women like to be asked, men are used to fight for it.” The lunch keynote speaker, Christine Goldberg, Principal of the Price Waterhouse Coopers Advisory Practice, then said something similar. As women are trying
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[quote]”Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers.” ~Jack Canfield[/quote] Why is it sometimes so hard to ask for what we want? It could be because we don’t want to appear selfish, or maybe we don’t want to rock the boat or we are
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“Wait a minute, but I want to be happy! I don’t want to feel these “negative” feelings,” you may think. I too have always struggled with some of these emotions, because I want to generally be happy. And I don’t want to be a person who is jealous or resentful of others. Yet psychologists like
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At the end of last year, I chose “Courageous” as my quality that I want more of for 2013 (See: The World Hasn’t Ended, NowWhat?) So I was drawn to the following writing by David Whyte. “The Courageous Step” Why is it so difficult to take the first, necessary, close-in, courageous step to claiming our
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