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Today's "rant" - faking it

Guest post by: Margie Albert

Article Overview: I see people every day put on their phony face as if they are interested in learning about anything new and different and then going about their business as if nothing is changing. Putting your head in the sand will not make change go away. So please:

Today's "rant" - faking it

I see people every day put on their phony face as if they are interested in learning about anything new and different and then going about their business as if nothing is changing. Putting your head in the sand will not make change go away. So please:

Accept you don’t know everything and no one else does either

Make a true commitment to be open to learning and changing

Listen intently

Silence that inner voice that tells you to run

Be relentlessly curious

Try not to be afraid – learning doesn’t bite

Ask lots of questions until you understand

Read

Experiment

As Seth Godin said, “Feel free to ignore what you learn, but at least learn it.”

I add, “If not for yourself, then for all those who depend on you for guidance.”

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Re: Post subject: Too successful for a mate? - [quote="BuzzAroundBooks":mhyy7t61][quote="Tami Szabo":mhyy7t61]Seriously, I don't think successful women are off the proverbial "good wife material list". However, if you think yourself off of it then don't be surprised if you fulfill your own prophecy.[/quote:mhyy7t61] Perhaps it's the sense of "entitlement" that blinds them because they are searching for someone who is equal to or more successful than themselves and equal to or better looking as well. In the movie [i:mhyy7t61]Juno[/i:mhyy7t61] (2007), Juno questions whether two people can actually stay together and her father responds by saying "the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you. The right person's still gonna think the sun shines out of your... That's the kind of person worth sticking with."[/quote:mhyy7t61] With some people it could be entitlement, some want more than any one person can ever offer, others think they deserve much more than they could ever attract - lots of reasons why some people will never find a happy relationship. I haven't seen Juno, but I think that character is right. Find someone who loves you as you are and for who you really are. Like I tell my mother - no point in faking it because you can't fake it forever and who would want to? Shri


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