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What Was I So Worried About?

What Was I So Worried About?

It’s hard to believe I took this photo over a decade ago in Bruges, Belgium.

In 2008, I agonized about sharing this photo for days. I edited, fretted, edited some more – repeat. Once I finally shared it, I clicked refresh over and over again and relied on the validation that came with every like.

I look at this photo today and have no idea what I was so worried about.

We hear the cliché,…

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Happy Regardless Of...

Happy Regardless Of…

When I experience something negative or unintended, it is usually helpful to spend some time reflecting on the ways I may have influenced those events. How could I have done things differently? Did I make the right decisions based on what I knew then? Did I do everything that was within my control?  But I tend to go too far by finding ways to be responsible for everything that happens including…

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#379 - “The most important comparison, in fact, is comparing your work to what you’re capable of.” -Seth Godin

http://imperfectionistblog.com/2017/12/seth-godin-on-comparing-your-work-to-the-work-you-are-capable-of/

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#372 - “While you are postponing, life speeds by.” -Seneca

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_1

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#035 - William Blake, on perception: “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”

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“So unobtrusive many a joy   We pass by and forget it, But worry strives to own our lives,   And conquers if we let it.”


-Ella Wheeler Wilcox (“Thanksgiving”)



http://imperfectionistblog.com/2017/11/your-unobtrusive-joys/

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#368 - André Gide, on authenticity: "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

http://bit.ly/2mRPwHR

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#365 - “I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.” -Margaret Atwood (Lady Oracle)

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#286 - “Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites.” -Brené Brown (The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are)

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#023 - “There is no innovation or creativity without failure. Period.” 

Check out ‪#‎failogue‬, a series that brings you stories of failure.

http://imperfectionistblog.com/category/failogue/

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#010 - Bobby Kennedy, on failure: "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

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#364 - “I dwell in Possibility” -Emily Dickinson (“I dwell in Possibility (466)”)

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#363: “This above all- to thine own self be true” -William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

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#019: “Through the practice of deep looking and deep listening, we become free, able to see the beauty and values in our own and others’ tradition.” -Thich Nhat Hanh (Living Buddha, Living Christ)

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#018: Robert Louis Stevenson, on success and failure: 

“Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.” -Robert Louis Stevenson (“Reflections and Remarks on Human Life”)

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#360: Kurt Vonnegut, on accidents:

“You learn about life by the accidents you have, over and over again” -Kurt Vonnegut”



https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-best-jokes-are-dangerous-an-interview-with-kurt-vonnegut-part-three

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#361: Fyodor Dostovesky on respect: “If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.”