Enjoy the gift of today. Let the posts below challenge, inspire, and spark something inside of you. What to do when you DON'T KNOW what to do! and more… In This Issue: What to do when you DON'T KNOW what to do! Fear the fear, feel the fear There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. More Recent Articles Search Positively Positive   What to do when you DON'T KNOW what to do! by Kute Blackson We all have moments in life when we do not know what to do. We get confused. We are unsure. We don't have clarity on the steps to take. We often don't like those moments and try to avoid them. But it is in those very moments, when you don't know what to do, that have the potential to be the most powerful and transformative in your life. However, sometimes, the mind plays clever games, creating false confusion to keep you stuck in a fog, preventing you from moving forward. It's a way of avoiding the unknown. Your next level of growth is outside of your comfort zone. Often we get caught up in a familiar routine, doing the same thing over and over again. We already know what will happen next. We get comfortable creating an environment that we think we are in control of. Soon, familiarity breeds comfort, and then you stop growing. When you are no longer growing, you are no longer alive. You become part of the living dead. @kuteblackson (Click to Tweet!) The... Read the whole entry »       • Email to a friend • Article Search •   Fear the fear, feel the fear by Seth Godin Most of the things we avoid are avoided because we're afraid of being afraid. Seth Godin (Click to Tweet!) Too meta? Sorry, but it's true. The negative outcomes that could actually occur due to speaking up in class, caring about our work product, interacting with the boss—there's not a lot of measurable risk. But the fear…the fear can be debilitating or, at the very least, distasteful. So it's easier just to avoid it altogether. On the other hand, artists and leaders seek out that feeling. They push themselves to the edge, to the place where the fear lives. By feeling it, by exposing themselves to the resistance, they become more alive and do work that they're most proud of. The fear doesn't care, either way. The choice is to spend our time avoiding that fear or embracing it. Seth Godin has written fourteen books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. Every one has been a bestseller. He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way... Read the whole entry »       • Email to a friend • Article Search •   There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. by Positively Positive Related Posts To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. How to Increase Your Odds of Finding a Miracle We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and [...]       • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles Life Is Sad. And Awesome. Embrace It All. What Is Sexy? Something of Old An Open Letter to Dream Bashers Want to Be Happy over the Holidays? Practice Forgiveness!

 

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