“You are what your deep, driving desire is."
What is your truth? What defines you that others should see and that you must live?
How many of us put on masks, erect barriers, or turn our backs on others wanting only to be left alone? Far too many of us and far too many times.
We all, understandably, want to be accepted and know that we belong in the world we know. We pretend we’re okay and fine, and refuse to show our pain. We hide who we really are, what really matters to us, and that we’re hurt or confused.
Past pain, real or imagined, cannot be current pain. Leave it where it belongs, in your unchangeable memories.
Why do we wait so long to let go of the things, and people, that hurt us long ago? We carry past pain entwined throughout our lives into every decision and interaction for years.
Gratitude: there’s more than you thought and more still to come.
Gratitude – everyone’s talking about it, journaling about it, expressing it, and writing books about it. But for many of us, we tend to ignore it and not give it proper reflection.
Do some have more to be grateful for than others? I don’t think so. I think that some, and this includes me, don’t give gratitude enough time in our thoughts and journaling. I have at least two journals that have a place to write down what I’m grateful for on a daily basis. But I’m not consistent with this and can even go at least a month without giving it much thought.
What calls to you from deep inside? Listen to that voice, it’s who you’ve been looking for.
In a busy world, it’s hard to slow down and listen. But even if we could, what are we listening for? Our jobs, family, even our free time dictate that we keep moving, do something useful, and not be seen as “a slacker.” But there is something more and we block it out by keeping busy.
It’s impossible – those dreams 
we have and the ideals we want to live up to – those things which we know we ought to do but don’t do. And knowing we deliberately avoid these things says something – that we know what we are avoiding and make other poorer choices. Well, our choices now may lead to problems later.
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I’m sure you’ve seen them: 
10 Great Christmas Gifts, 5 Things to Do With Your Family, 1001 Great Christmas Quotes. Of course, I’ve made those up (maybe they exist, but that’s not my point.) We all fall for the 5 or 10 step programs, ideas, gifts…whatever. So I decided to not do that. Here are just a couple of ideas about Christmas.
So many things we want to do – so few things 
we do. Why is that?
We wonder, we ponder, we visualize, we dream. And in the thinking, we don’t DO anything. So how do we change and become that which we wish to be?
Don’t you just love it when a great idea or opportunity 
comes along, you overthink it, and then you let it go? You’ve talked yourself out of it; a one-time thing that is forever gone. And then you always wonder what would have happened if you had only taken the chance and did it?
That happened to me 35 years ago, and I’ve always wondered what could have happened to me, where would I be today if I had made a different choice. At the time, I had to choose between a basketball scholarship and a job that would make me more money over the long run. Guess what I chose? More on that later.