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- My message is so simple – yet so hard for many
- Live your life and love your life
- Don’t hold yourself back because you are not perfect
- Because you think you don’t look right
- Or don’t have the skills required
- Or whatever else you think is missing
- Lean into your life and live it fully
- When life knocks on your door, open it
- Don’t say – not yet – come back later – like many people do
- Our self-consciousness
- Our fears
- Our worries
- Push them aside
- When the opportunities arise
- To swim
- To dance
- To get naked
- To sing
- To laugh
- To speak up
- To dream
- To question
- To look someone into the eyes
- Then do it
- Its life calling on you to participate
- Despite your not-readiness that’s really just an illusion
- To enjoy life we don’t need anything
- Definitely not perfection
- Or the right figure
- Or the newest car
- We simply need to open the door and step into it
- Sometimes this may require stepping over others who are trying to hold us back
- Sadly, there are people, sometimes our own family members, that point out limitations
- Obstacles as to why we cannot do or achieve what others can
- Then we need to remember
- This is your life – and they are not in charge of it
- When joy calls
- When you long for something that’s right in front of you
- When a long-awaited opportunity is finally here
- Then you go and take it
- Despite what others say
- What your ego says
- and all the other little voices that want to hold you back
- This week we talked about assertiveness
- An important episode
- I encourage you – if you missed it – to check it out
- Being assertive means to Speak up for yourself
- And it also means to live and enjoy your life
- As soon as we hold back because of fear of what others might think, we become passive
- And, as Lamott tells us, we will regret it later
- We will look back and wish we had lived more fully, more openly, and with less care about what others might think
- Don’t let it happen my friends
- And if you want to hear more from Anne Lamott – check out her amazing TED talk
12 truths I learned from life and writing
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