What is a good frightened? Some people are so self-aware that it is frightening, because it actually scares others unintentionally. Not many of us would admit that an authentically self-aware person intimidates us.
If you carry uncommon self-awareness with you, walk softly.
Here’s the litmus test for self improvement: can you say beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are making conscious efforts to improve? Further, can you prove it – you know, measure it?
Mid Life Celebration is feeling quite edgy today. Why? Well, there’s an aging Baby Boomer elephant in the room. You know, the thing everyone knows is so obvious (an elephant in the room), but everyone ignores, walks around, pretends doesn’t exist.
It’s this whole “personal responsibility” movement jeff noel has been writing about. Boomers, when will we stop seeking the answers outside ourselves? All we need – the answers, happiness – it all resides inside. We must simply start looking. On the inside.
How many books, eBooks, articles and workshops have been dedicated to midlife self-improvement? How many in midlife actually self-improve? And I mean in a significantly balanced way. How many do you know?