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Where are the people that can do this?

"Being vulnerable doesn't have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives." ~Sara Paddison

Intensity comes in small packages

An excerpt from The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Collection of Aphorisms from the Works of Baltasar Gracian, translated by Martin Fischer : "Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality. All that is best is always scant, and rare, for mass in anything cheapens it. Even among men the giants have often been true pygmies. Some judge books by their thickness, as though they had been written to exercise the arms, instead of the mind. Bigness, alone, never gets beyond the mediocre, and it is the curse of the universal man, that in trying to be everything, he is nothing."

Personality Fitness

For as long as I can remember I have struggled with fitness. It isn't that I am opposed to it. I have no great issues with working up a sweat. My struggle has been in finding fitness routines or programs that can keep my attention. Today I ran across an article on Personality Fitness . I read the descriptions for all and felt I best fit into the 1st and 5th fitness types: Fitness Personality No. 1: Action and Adventure Bored by routine workouts Spends as much time as possible outdoors Prefers the trail to the treadmill Usually competitive when it comes to sports Exercises for the adventure and/or social experience Fitness Personality No. 5: Easy Does It Avoids the gym Uncomfortable exercising in groups Prefers low-impact fitness routines May be working around old sports injuries or other health concerns (such as back pain, etc.) Exercises to build resilience, stability and self-confidence There were exercises listed that definitely appealed to me and some that I had never hear

Land of 10,000 opportunities

"Take a lesson from the mosquito. It never waits for an opening; it makes one." ~Kirk Kirkpatrick Well dang...who knew those pesky little bastards were something to aspire to be like? I have a couple of friends that are presently feeling trapped by their jobs. For various reasons they hate where they are and what they are doing. These are not people that recently had a change in their current situation that isn't sitting well with them. These are people that have hated their career situation for nearly 10 years. I do what I can to help them explore their opportunities, find out what else is out in the world of employment that would be a little more satisfying for them but I think the reality is that these are people that won't ever make an opening for themself. Listening to them talk you would think that they are expecting that one day they are going to have some AHA! moment where finally they realize what career of their dreams is. Like mysteriously their caree