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Old men ought to be explorers
Here and there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
["East Coker" from the Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot]
Out of the blue, it hit. Hit me hard. I felt so deflated, sucked of energy. So much so I had to take a day off work that Wednesday, just to regroup.
Seemed so strange to me, as it had never happened quite like this before. Because that Wednesday, Dec. 2nd, was 15 years to the day that my husband, Steve, had been called home to be with his Lord.
Maybe it was because 15 years seemed like some sort of milestone. I really don’t know. All I knew was, I had to take a step back from the normal tempo of daily life. And pause to ponder, experience, and live through all that was seeping up from inside. I guess it’s true that even after all this time, grief takes you on its own journey.
And it was OK. And I was going to be...
DREAM BLOCKER #5: Fear of what would people think if I failed.
In this series of 5 articles, you will learn:
In this article, we’ll be looking at Dream Blocker #5. For the rest of the articles, go to Dream Blocker #1, Dream Blocker #2, Dream Blocker #3 and Dream Blocker #4
Introduction
What stands in your way?
Let’s be honest.
It’s one thing to encourage you to not let anything stand in the way of fulfilling your dream, but the reality is, things do stand in your way, with many of them coming from inside us, whether they come from the circumstances of our childhood, from what influential others (like parents) have said about us or by what we learned about ourselves as adults.
I call them...
DREAM BLOCKER #4: The fear that I’m thinking too much of myself because it’s too big a dream
In this series of 5 articles, you will learn:
In this article, we’ll be looking at Dream Blocker #4. For the rest of the articles, go to Dream Blocker #1, Dream Blocker #2, Dream Blocker #3 and Dream Blocker #5
Introduction
What stands in your way?
Let’s be honest.
It’s one thing to encourage you to not let anything stand in the way of fulfilling your dream, but the reality is, things do stand in your way, with many of them coming from inside us, whether they come from the circumstances of our childhood, from what influential others (like parents) have said about us or by what we learned...
DREAM BLOCKER #3: The fear that it’s too big a dream
In this series of 5 articles, you will learn:
In this article, we’ll be looking at Dream Blocker #3. For the rest of the articles, go to Dream Blocker #1, Dream Blocker #2, Dream Blocker #4 and Dream Blocker #5.
Introduction
What stands in your way?
Let’s be honest.
It’s one thing to encourage you to not let anything stand in the way of fulfilling your dream, but the reality is, things do stand in your way, with many of them coming from inside us, whether they come from the circumstances of our childhood, from what influential others (like parents) have said about us or by what we learned about ourselves as adults.
I call them...
DREAM BLOCKER #2: The fear that I don’t deserve it
In this series of 5 articles, you will learn:
In this article, we’ll be looking at Dream Blocker #2. For the rest of the articles, go to Dream Blocker #1, Dream Blocker #3, Dream Blocker #4 and Dream Blocker #5.
Introduction
What stands in your way?
Let’s be honest.
It’s one thing to encourage you to not let anything stand in the way of fulfilling your dream, but the reality is, things do stand in your way, with many of them coming from inside us, whether they come from the circumstances of our childhood, from what influential others (like parents) have said about us or by what we learned about ourselves as adults.
I call them...
DREAM BLOCKER #1: The fear that I’m inadequate
In this series of 5 articles, you will learn:
In this article, we’ll be looking at Dream Blocker #1. For the rest of the articles, go to Dream Blocker #2, Dream Blocker #3, Dream Blocker #4 and Dream Blocker #5
Introduction
What stands in your way?
Let’s be honest.
It’s one thing to encourage you to not let anything stand in the way of fulfilling your dream, but the reality is, things do stand in your way, with many of them coming from inside us, whether they come from the circumstances of our childhood, from what influential others (like parents) have said about us or by what we learned about ourselves as adults.
I call them...
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